Tetsuya Fujita, Japanese-born American meteorologist who created the Fujita Scale of tornado intensity, or F-Scale, a system of classifying tornado intensity based on damage to structures and vegetation.
Tetsuya Theodore Fujita (/ ˈ f uː 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.
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…
Other articles where Fujita Scale is discussed: Tetsuya Fujita: …American meteorologist who created the Fujita Scale, or F-Scale, a system of classifying tornado intensity based on damage to structures and vegetation.
The Fujita scale (F-Scale; / f u ˈ dʒ iː t ə/), or Fujita–Pearson scale (FPP scale), is a scale for rating tornado intensity, based primarily on the damage tornadoes inflict on human-built structures and vegetation.