By Mike Averill mike.averill@tulsaworld.com
STILLWATER — Graduate students at Oklahoma State University are designing an unmanned aerial vehicle — more commonly known as a drone — to fly remotely into storms and gather data to improve the understanding of weather systems.
The work is part of the university's unmanned aerial systems (UAS) degree program.
The idea is for the students to design and create — starting with a clean sheet of paper — an unmanned vehicle that will be flown into the lower levels of super cells to collect meteorological information, including data on the formation of tornadoes.
“That's where most of the circulation starts to build up when a tornado is forming.
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