Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hook echo 3

Hook echo

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Original – A Doppler on wheels image of a tornadic thunderstorm near La Grange, Wyoming (USA) captured during the VORTEX2 project. In the velocity image on the left, Blues/green represent winds moving towards the radar, and reds/yellows indicate winds moving away from the radar. The reason that some of the darker blues contain red/yellow within them is a trait known as Aliasing, where the winds are moving faster than the radar can detect. In the reflectivity image on the right, the main body of the storm can be seen, with the appendage on the bottom of the storm being a hook echo, which is associated directly with the tornado, and the tornado circulation itself can be seen as the doughnut like shape in the later part of the animation.

Reason

High quality, high EV, and adds significantly to its article.

Articles in which this image appears

Hook echo, Doppler on Wheels

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences

Creator

Josh Wurman/Center for Severe Weather Research

Video form

• Support as nominator – Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 20:40, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
• Support – high-quality and high-resolution animation of what is sometimes called the most thoroughly documented tornado in history. I'll always be amazed by the "eye" of the tornado on display here. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 23:10, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
• Support - High quality image with excellent encyclopedic value. Mifter (talk) 01:10, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
• Oppose Doesn't seem to be the most valuable on the hook echo article nor the Doppler on Wheels article. Charlesjsharp (talk) 09:55, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

• The only other image in the DoW article is a 0.17mp photo of a vehicle carrying the instrument. Do you genuinely believe that's a better illustration of the technology in question? – Juliancolton | ^Talk 22:53, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

• Please don't question my integrity. Question my votes by all means, but do try to be polite. Doppler on Wheels is a truck-based system. The article is about the mobile system. The picture I refer to illustrates the truck-based system well. The size is of image is irrelevant, that image is not up for FP. Charlesjsharp (talk) 08:01, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

• I'd argue the article is as much about the project's findings and research as its infrastructure and logistics. It certainly should be, even if not now. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 02:57, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

• I think a system photograph and an output image would fall under two different scopes (compare Commons' VI). Both would be acceptable to me.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:47, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

• Support --LivioAndronico ^(talk) 19:56, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
• Question - Is this supposed to be animated? If yes, why not just have a video and thus provide a better approximation of the output? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:47, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
• Support--Jobas (talk) 21:35, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
• Oppose shouldn't this be a video, and not an image you have to click twice to see the animation? Mattximus (talk) 12:49, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
  • @Crisco 1492 and Mattximus: A video form already exists: File:05june-dow7-wide2.ogv. I just find it to be rather unfulfilling in comparison to the image, especially with the reduced quality of the video compared to the image (click to play the video thumbnail and you'll see what I mean). With either form you have to click twice to animate at full resolution/quality, and given that the image provides better quality in a thumbnail I find the image form to be more practical. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 12:17, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
• Oppose - GIFs of this size just don't work for me. At least with a video you just need to click once to see the clouds move.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:40, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 22:15, 9 May 2017 (UTC)