[FRIAM] PSC Tornado Visualization (2008) [720p] - YouTube

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Marcus, 

 

The result looks so much like iconic tornado vids that we wannabee tornado chasers idolize that one suspects that the video was back constructed from that film, rather than developing organically from the physics.  

 

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Nicholas Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

Clark University

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 8:29 PM
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With a few minutes of digging, the original video can be traced back to a simulation done by http://twister.ou.edu/ who has his publications here http://twister.ou.edu/vita.html#pubs.  The video came from a different specialist in visualization, Greg Foss:

https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=134516 <https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=134516&org=NSF> &org=NSF

 

Here’s apparently a standard code used to study tornados, there’s a list of users and their publications and the governing equations.   https://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/people/bryan/cm1/

 

Should you take any of this seriously?   Well, read the papers and decide.  Is it the fact there is some eye candy causing you to doubt that there is science behind it?  

 

Marcus

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Dear Phellow Phriammers, 

Is this eyecandy, or should I take it seriously?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gQutQQiuAI <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gQutQQiuAI&feature=youtu.be> &feature=youtu.be 

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