Sentences with phrase «in tornadoes experiment»

Yvette Richardson, Associate Professor of Meteorology at Penn State University, is a Councilor of the American Meteorological Society and was a leader of the recent Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment (VORTEX2).

The researchers called their project Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment, usually shortened to its handy acronym of VORTEX.

The joking subsided in 1995 during the last days of a giant meteorological study called Vortex (Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment), the largest tornado field project to date.

Not exact matches

Hurricanes and tornadoes require specialised models to predict, but Allen says that in theory they could be used to run the same type of experiment.

Following a pioneer and a victim Samaras was the founder of a project called the Tactical Weather - Instrumented Sampling in / near Tornadoes EXperiment, or TWISTEX, which used different instruments to gather data on the elements that make up a tornado, including wind speeds and direction, humidity, and atmospheric pressure.

Resembling abstract butterfly wings, the works also call to mind «the butterfly effect,» introduced by a mathematician and meterologist in the 1960s, which maintains that the slightest movement of a butterfly's wings could eventually cause a tornado to appear — a ready amalogy, perhaps, to Grotjahn's quietly provocative experiments within the history of abstract art.

Of course, in analyzing potential systematics in tornado classification, it is essential that the group not be guided by theoretical models, in this case, the «latest climate model experiments» that Markowski and team cite.

In fact, the latest climate - model experiments agree that further global warming is likely to increase the likelihood of conditions favorable to the severe thunderstorms that produce tornadoes in the spring and autumIn fact, the latest climate - model experiments agree that further global warming is likely to increase the likelihood of conditions favorable to the severe thunderstorms that produce tornadoes in the spring and autumin the spring and autumn.