The TORUS Team and Collaborators

Principal Investigators

Dr. Adam Houston, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Dr. Brian Argrow, University of Colorado, Boulder
Dr. Michael Coniglio, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Severe Storms Laboratory
Dr. Eric Frew, University of Colorado, Boulder
Dr. Erik Rasmussen, University of Oklahoma Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
Dr. Christopher Weiss, Texas Tech University
Dr. Conrad Ziegler, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Severe Storms Laboratory

Contact Information

For more information, please contact Dr. Adam Houston at ahouston2@unl.edu

In the news...

TORUS covers 9,000 miles across five states to collect storm data
Nebraska Today (8/23/2019)

Scientists Are Probing Tornadoes With Drones to Save Lives
Gizmodo (6/26/2019)

Flying Into The Storm!
Model Airplane News (5/22/2019)

You might want to take cover if an armada of weird storm-chaser vehicles rolls into town
Omaha World-Herald (5/18/2019)

Targeted Observations by Radars and UAS of Supercells
UAS Vision (5/16/2019)

All news articles about TORUS...

In the field...

Links to summaries of TORUS field operations will be posted here. TORUS deployments will begin in the spring of 2019.

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