The Center for Severe Weather Research has taken a new spin on chasing tornadoes. Radar Observations of Tornadoes and Thunderstorms Experiment (ROTATE) 2012 was an initiative, sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), with the purpose of investigating low-level winds in tornadoes, exploring the dynamics of a tornado, and how airborne debris and changing winds causes damage.
This project meant the collaboration of more than 30 scientists and crew from several universities and nations, enlisting the aid of advance instrumentation such as their Doppler On Wheels (Dow), mobile radars; Tornado Pods, data collecting devices; and photogrammetric practices, allowing them to produce imaging of the inside and outside of the tornado.
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