Lunchmaths is a series of fun mathematics lectures, intended to be accessible and of interest to undergrads with a minimum of maths background. Bring along your sandwiches. Tea/Coffee provided.
 

All you need is a glider. Each year from September through to November the perfect conditions exist over northern Queensland for the formation of a particularly spectacular cloud called the morning glory. This is the name given to a set of cloud lines which represent one of the finest examples of non-linear waves in the atmosphere.

In this talk we will show video footage of the morning glory in action, and show why it is so good for gliding on. We shall discuss how it develops and show how it can be studied using a numerical weather.