That’s where the Enhanced Fujita Scale, more commonly known as the EF scale, comes into play. The EF scale is the scale that meteorologists use to survey damage and estimate a tornado’s ...

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In 2007, the National Weather Service switched to the Enhanced Fujita Scale. Under that scale, the Hoisington Tornado would be considered a devastating EF-5 tornado. After it touched down ...

Here, we propose a model for landslide detection utilizing a combination of the Swin Transformer architecture with multi-scale feature fusion lateral connection and local information aggregation ...

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The Enhanced Fujita Scale (EF Scale) is used to rate tornadoes based on related damage and estimated wind speeds. When meteorologists survey tornado-related damage, it’s compared to a list of ...

To achieve this, we introduce a scale-wise semantic alignment (SSA) module that extracts local features of clothing and the target person at various scales using flexible query strategies. It learns ...

THAT IS, A FULLY FORMED TORNADO. NOW, IN MEASURING TORNADO STRENGTH, WE USE THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE, OR THE EF SCALE THAT’S BEEN UPDATED. MAYBE SOME FOLKS MY AGE ARE A LITTLE OLDER.