ASME presents a podcast on the application of small UAVs in the study of severe weather, especially tornadoes.
Here is the link to the ASME drones podcast page.
From the ASME page:
The recent spate of Oklahoma tornadoes has shown that tornado prediction is advancing but the current predictions aren't as precise as meteorologists would like them to be. Professor Jamey Jacob, Ray and Linda Booker Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State University (OSU), and three teams of engineering students are developing storm penetrating air vehicles that would penetrate tornadoes to collect vital meteorological data for better storm forecasting.
For anyone interested in studying sUAS in an academic setting, you might wish to add the OSU program to your list of schools.
Popular Science also ran an article about the OSU program, and you can read about it here.
From the PopSci article:
Engineering students at Oklahoma State University have designed three concept drones that may solve this problem. Three teams of students came up with plans for Storm Penetrating Air Vehicles (SPAVs). The goal is for these remotely piloted machines to ultimately replace storm chasers, who risk life and limb driving after tornadoes to capture data.
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