Joshua Wurman, Karen Kosiba, Paul Robinson,
... were obtained with an instrumented armored vehicle, the Tornado Intercept Vehicle (TIV), and integrated with finescale mobile Doppler radar (Doppler on Wheels) data revealing, for the first time, the structure of the near-ground three-dimensional wind field in and around the core region of a strong tornado, and permitting comparison with conceptual models. Inward and ...
Tópico(s): Wind and Air Flow Studies
2013 - American Meteorological Society | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
... in tornadoes based on the photogrammetric analysis of tornado debris movies. Instruments were subsequently developed that could be carried along on intercept vehicles to measure in situ electric field change, thermodynamic ...
Tópico(s): Flood Risk Assessment and Management
1999 - American Meteorological Society | Weather and Forecasting
Howard B. Bluestein, W. P. Unruh,
... 60 m s−1 were measured in the tornado. It was found that deploying the portable Doppler radar from a storm-intercept vehicle may increase substantially the number of measurements of ...
Tópico(s): Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
1989 - American Meteorological Society | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society