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Weather Simulation: Thunderstorms
A century of refinement has enabled flowering of Vilhelm Bjerknes ideas about the numerical simulation of weather. This animation of developing thunderstorms is a computer simulation of a series of storms that produced tornadoes. (Animation courtesy Dr. Brian F. Jewett Univ. Illinois Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences & National Center for Supercomputing Applications)