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Visual created from data generated by a tornado simulation
This visual was created from data generated by a tornado simulation calculated on the National Center for Supercomputing Applications' IBM p690 computing cluster. High-definition TV animations of the storm, produced at NCSA, were included in an episode of the PBS television series NOVA called "Hunt for the Supertwister." The tornado is represented by spheres that are colored according to pressure: orange and blue tubes represent the rising and falling airflow around the tornado. (Date of Image: September 2004)
Credit: Bob Wilhelmson, NCSA and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Lou Wicker, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Severe Storms Laboratory; Matt Gilmore and Lee Cronce, University of Illinois atmospheric science department. Visualization by Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, Stuart Levy, Matt Hall and Alex Betts, NCSA
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