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Articles | Volume 17, issue 3
Articles | Volume 17, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-943-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-943-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 17, issue 3
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08 Feb 2024
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Design and rocket deployment of a trackable pseudo-Lagrangian drifter-based meteorological probe into the Lawrence/Linwood EF4 tornado and mesocyclone on 28 May 2019

Reed Timmer, Mark Simpson, Sean Schofer, and Curtis Brooks

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Tornadoes are having impact on peoples live and are in a general interest.
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This work discusses a probe launched by a model rocket into an EF4 tornado and is the first time an airborne probe has directly sampled a tornado. The rocket deployed a parachuted probe recording wind speeds of 306 km h-1 in addition to temperature, humidity, and pressure deficit. Data from the probe were sent in real time to a receiver in an armored vehicle. Taking measurements directly from inside tornadoes provides new data about this violent phenomenon.
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