The U.S. tornado record is subject to inhomogeneities that are due to inconsistent practices in counting tornadoes, assessing their damage, and measuring pathlength and path width. Efforts to improve the modern tornado record (1950–2012) have focused on the following: 1) the rationale for removing the years 1950–52, 2) identification of inconsistencies in F0, F1, and F2 counts based on implemen...

3 Tornado Codes 5 3.1 Code Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2 Optimal Degree Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.3 Practical Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.3.1 Matlab Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

In recent years, the potential of seasonal outlooks for tornadoes has attracted the attention of researchers. Previous studies on this topic have focused mainly on the influence of global circulation patterns [e.g., El Niño– Southern Oscillation (ENSO), North Atlantic Oscillation, or Pacific decadal oscillation] on spring tornadoes. However, these studies have yielded conflicting results of the...

This article reports an exploratory study of how people see and explain a prominent exhibit (Tornado) at an interactive science museum (the Exploratorium). Our data was assembled using a novel, technically mediated activity system (Video Traces) that allowed visitors to reflect with an interviewer on video records of their own visits to the exhibit. We present qualitative data comparing initial...

ive Meeting Summarization Using Dependency Graph Fusion Siddhartha Banerjee The Pennsylvania State University University Park PA, USA 16802 [email protected] Prasenjit Mitra Qatar Computing Research Institute Tornado Tower, 18th floor Doha, Qatar [email protected] Kazunari Sugiyama National University of Singapore 13 Computing Drive Singapore 117417 [email protected]

we present observation of polar coronal hole plumes with foot point jets that shows evidence of longitudinal acceleration. the series of event, occurring in the north coronal hole on 10 july 2010, was observed by the aia telescopes of the solar dynamic observatory (sdo mission) in the euv lines, with unprecedented details. the structures along the plume show a propagating outward velocity of ab...

This paper was published in the IEEE Infocom of 1999. The main objective, as the title suggested, is to speed up client download speed by accessing multiple mirror sites in parallel. The idea is to allow multiple senders in possession of the same file to simultaneously transmit data to the client using traditional end-to-end scheme, the data transmitted is the craftily encoded and sliced versio...

An experimental study was conducted to quantify the characteristics of wake vortex and flow structures around a high-rise building model as well as the resultant wind loads (both forces and moments) acting on the test model in tornado-like winds. In addition to measuring wind loads acting on the tested high-rise building model using a highsensitivity load cell, a digital Particle Image Velocime...

One of the promising ways to tame a tornado is to inject dust into it. Somewhat counter-intuitively, injecting coarse dust only makes the tornado stronger, while injecting fine dust can indeed help in the taming. This difference has been explained by a mathematical analysis of the corresponding equations, but (in contrast to the usual physics practice) this mathematical analysis has not yet bee...

OBJECTIVES We describe the demographics of the decedents from the tornado outbreak in Alabama on April 27, 2011; examine the circumstances of death surrounding these fatalities; and identify measures to prevent future tornado-related fatalities. METHODS We collected information about the decedents from death certificates, disaster-related mortality surveillance, and interview data collected b...