Hi Dan,
What a great shot, you should get an award for that one.
I understood that Doppler radar is quite accurate when determining the speed of the tornado. Are their other technologies, such as Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) that can be used to determine heat in the tornado’s columns, or a possible calculation of the shear forces of the vortices, or is the speed to great.
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here we see the begining of the tornado http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XMF22_MEMJU why is not scientifically possible to stop the process at the first step when “vortex” looks for connection with ground ?
Hi Dan,
What a great shot, you should get an award for that one.
I understood that Doppler radar is quite accurate when determining the speed of the tornado. Are their other technologies, such as Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) that can be used to determine heat in the tornado’s columns, or a possible calculation of the shear forces of the vortices, or is the speed to great.
Right now in Science class I’m dong a project about tornados, and the story about the tornado made me cry very badly.