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Tornadic supercell, view from south
Volume rendered cloud field. View of tornadic supercell from the south with inset focused on tornado, wall cloud, and tail cloud.
EF5 Tornado
Volume rendered cloud field of an EF5 tornado produced in a supercell simulation
Horizontal roll ascending
Volume rendered cloud field of tornadic supercell. A horizontal roll, tilted from the vertical, ascends in the updraft encircling the tornado core.
Multiple vortices
Volume rendered cloud field, looking south down the forward flank downdraft boundary.
Weakening tornado
Volume rendered cloud field toward the end of the tornado's life.
Streamwise vorticity current
Volume rendering of vorticity magnitude and trajectories originating near the ground across a secondary forward flank gust front boundary
Streamwise vorticity current
Volume rendering of vorticity magnitude and trajectories originating near the ground across a secondary forward flank gust front boundary
Streamwise vorticity current
Volume rendering of vorticity magnitude and trajectories originating near the ground across a secondary forward flank gust front boundary
View from above
Volume-rendered cloud field, viewed from above. A poor-man's visible satellite image!
Tornadic supercell, view looking towards the northwest
Volume-rendered cloud field, showing most of the model domain (clipping the anvil).
Tornadic supercell, view looking west
Volume rendered cloud field, looking west
Vorticity in a tornadic supercell
Volume rendered vorticity magnitude in a tornadic supercell, focusing on the tornado. Red indicates positive vertical vorticity, blue indicates negative vertical vorticity.
Supercell cloud and hydrometeors, viewed from the south
Volume rendered cloud and hydrometeor fields
Downburst producing thunderstorm
Cloud and precipitation field of a downburst-producing thunderstorm
Downburst-producing thunderstorm
Volume rendered potential temperature (cold air) field of a downburst-producing thunderstorm
Colliding microburst simulation
Highly idealized simulation of two colliding microburst outflows