"An Example of Fujita-scale Damage," photographs, undated.

dc.contributor.authorFujita, Tetsuya Theodore.
dc.coverage.spatialn-us-txeng
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-04T21:59:45Z
dc.date.available2016-11-04T21:59:45Z
dc.date.issuedundated
dc.descriptionTetsuya Theodore Fujita (1920-1998) was born in Kitakyushu, Japan. After receiving his doctorate from Tokyo University in 1950, he began a career as an associate professor at the Kyushu Institute of Technology. In 1953, he began to teach at the University of Chicago, at which he served as a professor until his death in 1998. During his career, Ted Fujita researched meteorology, focusing on severe storms such as microbursts, tornadoes, and hurricanes. He pioneered new techniques for documenting severe storms, including aerial photography and the use of satellite images and film. He also created the Fujita Scale for assessing tornado strength based on a given storm's wind speed and the amount of damage it caused.
dc.descriptionThe Dr. T. Theodore Fujita Collection contains published manuscripts, draft manuscripts, charts, graphs, maps, photographs, photographic negatives, slides, and miscellaneous other materials pertaining to his four decades of meteorological research. A complete set--over 200--reports from Satellite and Mesometeorology Research Project (SMRP) are present. This was his most significant project, documenting for the first time such phenomena as downbursts, multiple-vortex tornadoes, and other groundbreaking meteorological observations and discoveries. Publications, conference proceedings, and research materials from the SMRP, as well as from the National Severe Storms Project (NSSP) and JAWS (Joint Airport Weather Study), comprise the bulk of the collection.
dc.descriptionExclusive of these projects is a geographically and chronologically diverse collection of newspapers documenting such events as 1974’s tornadic Superoutbreak, the F-5 Lubbock tornado of 1970, the large Joplin, Missouri tornado of 1973, and dozens of other incidents. Charts--both printed and hand-drawn with attendant graphs, hundreds of photographs, and a wide variety of other research material formats documenting these occurrences is also present.
dc.descriptionThe audio/visual portion of the collection contains such items as the first full-motion satellite images of the Earth, the use of which he pioneered as a meteorological assessment and prediction technique. Audio cassettes and CDs, VHS tapes, 8mm and other sizes of film, and a handful of diskettes are a part of the audio/visual component as well.
dc.descriptionAccess Restrictions: Open for Research.
dc.descriptionBox 92, Folder 1
dc.format.extent1 pdf page.
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10605/294460
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rightsThe images in this collection are for study purposes, teaching, classroom projection and research only. Permission to publish these digital files in any form must be obtained from the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, 806-742-9070 or email reference.swco@ttu.edu.
dc.subject.lcshLubbock (Tex.) Tornado.eng
dc.subject.lcshTornadoes.eng
dc.subject.lcshFujita, Tetsuya Theodore
dc.subject.lcshTexas Tech University. Wind Science and Engineering Center
dc.subject.lcshUniversity of Chicago
dc.subject.lcshUnited States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
dc.subject.lcshCyclones
dc.subject.lcshCyclones--United States
dc.subject.lcshHurricanes
dc.subject.lcshHurricanes--United States
dc.subject.lcshHurricanes--United States--Research
dc.subject.lcshMeteorology
dc.subject.lcshMeteorology--United States
dc.subject.lcshMicrobursts
dc.subject.lcshMonsoons
dc.subject.lcshMonsoons-Asia
dc.subject.lcshSatellite Meteorology
dc.subject.lcshSatellite Meteorology--United States
dc.subject.lcshSatellites
dc.subject.lcshSevere Storms
dc.subject.lcshSevere Storms--United States
dc.subject.lcshSkylab Program
dc.subject.lcshThunderstorms
dc.subject.lcshThunderstorms--United States
dc.subject.lcshTornadoes--United States
dc.subject.lcshTornadoes--International
dc.subject.lcshTornadoes--Forecasting--Research--United States
dc.subject.lcshTornadoes--Photographs
dc.subject.lcshTornadoes--Research--United States
dc.subject.lcshTyphoons
dc.subject.lcshTyphoons--Pacific Ocean
dc.subject.lcshWeather Forecasting
dc.subject.lcshWeather Forecasting--History
dc.title"An Example of Fujita-scale Damage," photographs, undated.en_US
dc.typeImage

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