Genesis and Maintenance of a Simulated EF5 Tornado

Simulated tornado being generated by a supercomputer (Blue Waters) with 20,000 processing cores.

I need a dictionary to figure out half of the terms used in the talk, but the simulations are stunning.
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My favourite simulations occur around 11:15 when he starts dropping "trajectories" or "packages" into the simulation. Think of them as miniature probes that get swept up into the airflows.

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