美国有线新闻 CNN 美国设置东南部地区风暴研究项目 以应对飓风季

 

play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0003:30repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser¹ to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. AZUZ: The U.S. which has the planet's most extreme weather is currently in the midst of tornado² season. It generally runs from March to June, though meteorologists point out that tornadoes³ can form at any time of year.

Much of their research has been based on storms in the Midwest. But because the Southeastern U.S. has an excessively large number of deadly tornadoes, a U.S. government program called VORTEX Southeast is focused on that part of the country.

SUBTITLE⁴: Storm chasing in the Southeast.

JENNIFER GRAY, AMS METEOROLOGIST: VORTEX Southeast is very different from chasing in the Plains. There's a lot of parameters⁵ that are going to be involved. For one, these tornadoes could fire up after dark.

Also, there's an element of danger because unlike the Plains, you can see from miles and miles. The terrain⁶ is very difference. You have a lot of hills and you have a lot of trees.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: As soon as this warning convection clears out, we will try to cover very quickly.

GRAY: We had our morning briefing. So, we're fairly confident about what's going to happen this afternoon.

CHRIS WEISS, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, TEXAS TECH: So, we think there'll be more thunderstorms. The question is, where exactly are they going to form?

We think there's some tornado potential as storms do form this afternoon out to our west.

GRAY: And so, we're about to head out to see what we can find. We have some important decisions to make about exactly where to go and what time we are going to deploy⁷ those instruments.

Well, here we are in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. And we're just waiting. And that's what happens a lot of times when you're storm chasing. We're waiting on these storms to fire up and then we're going to react to them. While we are waiting, the crew is back there, they're analyzing⁸ what's going on and trying to make the best decision of what to do next.

SUBTITLE: Crews decipher real-time weather data to make a decision of where to move.

WEISS: The question is what, say 45 minutes go by, and the storms look no bigger than it is right now and we have to make a decision to go east, give it more time, go south to try to catch more.

SUBTITLE: With enough information about the current environment, crews make the choice to deploy to the north.

Chasers deploy 8 sticknets ahead of the storm. It takes under7 minutes to deploy a sticknet.

GRAY: You can see the storm tht we're targeting right behind me. So, we rode out in front of the storm and we're putting out our sticknets.

They're basically weather stations. They're going to tell you temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, as well as pressure. And within minutes, we will have the data, not only to use today, but in the future to do research on these storms.

WEISS: What we're looking at here are actually, this is live data from the probes we just deployed⁹ over the last half hour, extending from our position back up to the north, so we can see the temperature, the viewpoints, as well as the air pressure, and the wind direction and wind speed.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're headed out of here.

GRAY: This information is not only coming from the Texas Tech team, but from a host of field scientists. It will take months to go through the data, but in the end, the risk these storm chasers are taking will eventually help save lives.

1 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

2 tornado   

n.飓风，龙卷风

参考例句：

• A tornado whirled into the town last week.龙卷风上周袭击了这座城市。
• The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。

3 tornadoes   

n.龙卷风，旋风( tornado的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Tornadoes, severe earthquakes, and plagues create wide spread havoc. 龙卷风、大地震和瘟疫成普遍的毁坏。 来自互联网
• Meteorologists are at odds over the working of tornadoes. 气象学者对龙卷风的运动方式看法不一。 来自互联网

4 subtitle   

n.副题（书本中的），说明对白的字幕

参考例句：

• His new book has a subtitle.他的新书有一个副标题。
• Ah!I don't know why they don't subtitle these movies.唉！我不知道这些电影为什么不打字幕。

5 parameters   

因素，特征； 界限； （限定性的）因素( parameter的名词复数 )； 参量； 参项； 决定因素

参考例句：

• We have to work within the parameters of time. 我们的工作受时间所限。
• See parameters.cpp for a compilable example. This is part of the Spirit distribution. 可编译例子见parameters.cpp.这是Spirit分发包的组成部分。

6 terrain   

n.地面，地形，地图

参考例句：

• He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
• He knows the terrain of this locality like the back of his hand.他对这一带的地形了如指掌。

7 deploy   

v.（军）散开成战斗队形，布置，展开

参考例句：

• The infantry began to deploy at dawn.步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。
• The president said he had no intention of deploying ground troops.总统称并不打算部署地面部队。

8 analyzing   

v.分析；分析( analyze的现在分词 )；分解；解释；对…进行心理分析n.分析

参考例句：

• Analyzing the date of some socialist countries presents even greater problem s. 分析某些社会主义国家的统计数据，暴露出的问题甚至更大。 来自辞典例句
• He undoubtedly was not far off the mark in analyzing its predictions. 当然，他对其预测所作的分析倒也八九不离十。 来自辞典例句

9 deployed   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
• The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。