Frank, I think that was the one that depicted tornadoes as arising from a horizontal barrel roll being bulged upward in the middle and ultimately split into two vortexes, one clockwise one, counter. This idea does explain why sometimes a weak anti-cyclonic tornado often appear next to a main cyclonic one. But the idea did seem kind of rinky-dink to me. You are right, of course, I had no way to visit the math and evaluate it
Nick Nicholas Thompson Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology Clark University <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 9:31 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] PSC Tornado Visualization (2008) [720p] - YouTube The fluid dynamics model used for that visualization is based on first principles. Many years ago Nick was trying to figure out how tornadoes develop. I told him I thought this was pretty well understood and I asked Droegemeier for a paper. He sent one which I forwarded to Nick. It was full of advanced math. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, May 13, 2020, 9:23 PM Marcus Daniels <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Nick writes: “The result looks so much like iconic tornado vids that we wannabee tornado chasers idolize that one suspects that the video was back constructed from that film, rather than developing organically from the physics.” Suppose the equations were extracted, or the behavior re-generated, from a deep neural net (or whatever automated machine learning thing), but nonetheless were predictive of other tornados. One might reasonably ask, “Who cares?” Marcus .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... .... . ... FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam <http://bit.ly/virtualfriam> unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
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