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Main Authors: Luszczak, William, Orf, Leigh
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19311
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author Luszczak, William
Orf, Leigh
author_facet Luszczak, William
Orf, Leigh
contents Tornadoes are severe weather phenomena characterized by a violently rotating column of air connecting the ground to a parent storm. Within the United States, hundreds of tornadoes occur every year. Despite this, the dynamics of tornado formation and propagation are not particularly well understood, in part due to the challenge of instrumentation: many existing instruments for measuring atmospheric properties are in-situ detectors, making deployment in or near an active or developing tornado difficult. Here, we combine local atmospheric and cosmic ray air shower simulation to explore the potential for remote measurement of the pressure field within tornado-producing supercell thunderstorms by examining directional variations of the atmospheric muon flux.
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spellingShingle The Effect of Tornadic Supercell Thunderstorms on the Atmospheric Muon Flux
Luszczak, William
Orf, Leigh
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Tornadoes are severe weather phenomena characterized by a violently rotating column of air connecting the ground to a parent storm. Within the United States, hundreds of tornadoes occur every year. Despite this, the dynamics of tornado formation and propagation are not particularly well understood, in part due to the challenge of instrumentation: many existing instruments for measuring atmospheric properties are in-situ detectors, making deployment in or near an active or developing tornado difficult. Here, we combine local atmospheric and cosmic ray air shower simulation to explore the potential for remote measurement of the pressure field within tornado-producing supercell thunderstorms by examining directional variations of the atmospheric muon flux.
title The Effect of Tornadic Supercell Thunderstorms on the Atmospheric Muon Flux
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19311