Scientists have looked inside a tornado

American scientists have developed a three-dimensional model of the tornado to look at the storm from the inside.

The model is based on radar data collected during a real tornado that devastated the town of Moore, Oklahoma in may 2013. The background for the virtual element is the digital version of the map of Oklahoma. Sessions are held in a unique four virtual theater of the Polytechnic University of Virginia. To view, wear a special headset Oculus Rift. The invention of scientists allows a person to go inside a tornado and see what is happening from the inside with a height of 2.1 m, which gives feel like a giant. During a session you can see the layers of rain and explore its structure: red marked zone of heavy rain, yellow is less intense precipitation.



 

The developers of 3D models of tornado — bill Carstensen and his colleagues at the University of Virginia — I hope that their invention will help to better understand the behavior of a tornado. In the future, the team plans to update the radar data in real time to the specialists of emergency situations could monitor the storm and its development with a delay of a few minutes, reports the New Scientist.

Tornado in Moore in 2013, which became the prototype for the invention was not the most destructive in U.S. history, but in size, strength and length is among the largest. This storm caused the death of 24 people, destroyed a hospital and two schools in which at this time were the lessons. published

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