Tetsuya Theodore Fujita (/ f uː ˈ dʒ iː t ɑː /; FOO-jee-tah) (藤田 哲也, Fujita Tetsuya, October 23, 1920 – November 19, 1998) was a Japanese and American meteorologist whose research primarily focused on severe weather.

2024年11月15日 · Tetsuya Fujita (born October 23, 1920, Kitakyūshū City, Japan—died November 19, 1998, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) was a Japanese-born American meteorologist who created the Fujita Scale, or F-Scale, a system of classifying tornado intensity based on damage to structures and vegetation.

2020年10月22日 · Pioneering research by late UChicago scholar Ted Fujita saved thousands of lives and reshaped everything we know about tornadoes.

2020年5月4日 · Ted Fujita: Mr. Tornado. Ted Fujita was a Japanese-American engineer turned meteorologist. His lifelong work on severe weather patterns earned Fujita the nickname “Mr. Tornado".

2020年5月18日 · Ted Fujita examines the circulation produced by a tornado vortex generator in his lab at the University of Chicago. When people challenge a long-held belief, there is often pushback, and...

A master of observation and detective work, Japanese-American meteorologist Tetsuya "Ted" Fujita (1920–1998) invented the F-Scale tornado damage scale and discovered dangerous wind phenomenon called downbursts and microbursts that are blamed for numerous plane crashes.

Meteorologist Tetsuya Theodore “Ted” Fujita spent ten months studying the outbreak’s aftermath in the most extensive aerial tornado study ever conducted, and through detailed mapping and leaps of...