Abstract
Abstract This chapter introduces recent results aiming to compare full-scale data and simulations of tornadoes and to establish a framework through which simulations of tornado-like vortices (both physical and numerical) can be compared to full-scale data. Physical and sometimes numerical simulations of non-synoptic winds such as tornadoes and downbursts are performed at a reduced (model) scale (Λl) compared to reality (prototype). That approach implies that there is also a timescale (Λt) and a velocity scale (Λv) involved, and the three of them are interlinked. The proper determination of these scales is critical in the process of translating results from model simulations to reality. This chapter discusses the state of the art of determining these scales for two types of non-synoptic winds—tornadoes and downbursts.
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