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A growing number of experienced storm chasers advocate the adoption of a code of ethics in storm chasing featuring safety, courtesy, and objectivity as the backbone. [ 28 ] [ 58 ] Storm chasing is a highly visible recreational activity (which is also associated with science ) that is vulnerable to sensationalist media promotion. [ 59 ]
The free-to-use photograph of the tornado may or may not be in usage on a Wikipedia article or it may not even be uploaded on the Wikimedia Commons. This list just indicates that the tornado does have a confirmed, free-to-use photograph, which automatically excludes these tornadoes from having any non-free-file uploaded or used about them.
In the lower image, where the camera is facing the opposite direction, the sun is behind the tornado, giving it a dark appearance. [34] Tornadoes can have a wide range of colors, depending on the environment in which they form. Those that form in dry environments can be nearly invisible, marked only by swirling debris at the base of the funnel.
In 1994, Nguyen began chasing storms in Texas and soon expanded his range to the larger area of the central United States commonly known as Tornado Alley.Nguyen began publishing images regularly in Accord Publishing's popular annual Weather Guide Calendar series, [9] Smithsonian Magazine, NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day, as well as Weatherwise, Storm Track, UCAR Quarterly Archived 2010-05 ...
The TWISTEX crew and the vehicles on equipped with mobile mesonets. TWISTEX (a backronym for Tactical Weather-Instrumented Sampling in/near Tornadoes Experiment) was a tornado research experiment that was founded and led by Tim Samaras of Bennett, Colorado, US, that ended in the deaths of three researchers in the 2013 El Reno tornado.
Various types of tornadoes include the multiple vortex tornado, landspout, and waterspout. Other tornado-like phenomena that exist in nature include the gustnado, dust devil, fire whirl, and steam devil. Most tornadoes occur in North America (in the United States and Canada), concentrated in a region nicknamed the Tornado Alley. Tornadoes also ...
He continued submitting writing, photographs, and sketches to the magazine. He has written for the World Meteorological Organization and wrote a refereed article on a tornado spawned by Hurricane David. [5] He also provided advice and sketches for Storm Talk, the Storm Chase Manual, Tornado Talk, and the Storm Chaser's Handbook. [1]
An image of tornado itself can be found here. This Doppler image of the horrific 2011 Joplin tornado also is of high quality and EV, although this image fits better as it is a GIF. Articles in which this image appears Mobile radar observation of tornadoes, History of tornado research, Tornado, Eye (cyclone), Radius of maximum wind, VORTEX projects