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Old 12-07-2010, 11:06 AM
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World Fashion Channel? Somebody got out of bed grumpy this morning.

A guy on another site actually wants to learn to do wind forecasting for kiting. An admirable goal but perhaps a lot more work than he realizes. This is what I passed along to him, it is more than I would want to undertake.

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You could be buried under the books on meteorology and forecasting. There are implicit sources of inaccuracies in forecasting due to complexity and variability in weather that are hard to escape at this point. Also, micro vs. macro meteorology present significant issues for kiters at times. You may just want to start with some online resources and see where you go from there.

You could start with: http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/home.rxml
another, http://atmo.tamu.edu/class/wflm/
An excellent advanced site is located at: http://www.meted.ucar.edu/

Just found an interesting one on hazardous weather, an area existing kite forecast sites could do some necessary catching up on, http://www.crh.noaa.gov/sgf/?n=sever...hecklist_paper

You have your work cut out for you. Still with enough motivation and work you could learn a great deal and perhaps help our understanding of kiting wind.
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