Penn State scientists use new technology to intercept tornadoes
For Penn State scientists Yvette Richardson and Paul Markowski, spending part of their summer vacation in Tornado Alley, seeking out destructive vortices, is a rare and exciting opportunity. The two associate professors of meteorology at Penn State and seven of their undergraduate and graduate students will be part of a large team of researchers crossing through nine states in the middle of the United States to study tornadoes using radars, instrumented automobiles, weather balloons and other high-tech gadgets. (more)