Detection of Tornado damage in forested regions via convolutional neural networks and uncrewed aerial system photogrammetry

S Carani, TJ Pingel - Natural Hazards, 2023 - Springer
Disaster damage assessments are a critical component to response and recovery
operations. In recent years, the field of remote sensing has seen innovations in automated …

Comparison of Tornado Damage Characteristics to Low-Altitude WSR-88D Radar Observations and Implications for Tornado Intensity Estimation

AW Lyza, MD Flournoy, AA Alford - Monthly Weather Review, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Given the obvious difficulties in directly sampling tornadic wind fields, ongoing work
continues to improve estimates of near-ground wind speeds in tornadoes. This study builds …

A novel three-dimensional analytical tornado model constructed based on force balance analysis

H Zhang, H Wang, Z Xu, BC Khoo - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The analytical model for tornado vortices is crucial in both the wind field characterization and
the tornado-resistant design of civil structures. The objective of this study is to derive a novel …