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>> a serious hurricane. >> but hurricanes are just part of what they simulate at the wind tunnel. they test car models to make them more aerodynamic and thus fuel efficient. they even brought in the 2002 olympic bobsled team. >> they could get in the bobsled and measure the effect of their different tuck positions. >> barlow has been director of the tunnel since 1977. but he reminded me, wind experiments are still more precise than any computer model. >> the discovery of new ways to understand airflow is still very fascinating to me. maybe we're slow learners, but we're still learning. >> that...

Debris which arose from that -- from the crash. so we would expect more debris to wash up here. but it assumes that there is a lot more debris which could wash up. because, you know it's been a long time. some of the debris may have actually floated, but i'm not really sure how much debris is there to be watched onshore. >> do you feel encouraged by the discovery of this one piece of debris that's been confirmed to be of a boeing 777? >> i mean it gives us hope that we may find more. i mean our computer model says that we should find some more if there is debris still in the ocean. so, we hope...

The university of western australia created a computer model, last year as you know that predicked these currents and that gyre would carry wreckage to reunion island in 18 months. they did figure out the time. low and be hold it pops up there. >> how long has it been sitting on the beach? that has to be figured out. >> can they figure that out? >> with this item yes. with what's growing on it yes. this was mainly under water. it's like an iceberg. it's driven by the current, not the wind. they can be in different places. if we get more debris that are different buoyancy they can plug it into ...

The east coast of africa reunion island mauritius, tanzania. that is large and small-scale circulations this item may have undergone over the last 16 months. we have these drift analysises that we are going to monitor closely. let's quickly use an analogy. say we drop this plastic bot until the ocean and it floats like the device they found on the coast of reunion but it stops floating until it reaches an immoveable object like the coast of reunion coast of madagascar. this is where it becomes crucial to see where the debris can go. we have a high resolution and intellectual computer model fro...

Continue to move in. you see we have a severe thunderstorm warning under that watch as that line of storms begins to move in. frequent lightning and some hail with this potentially, and straight line wind damage, that is going to be coming through dallas. if you're not up yet, you're going to be up in a few minutes as these storms begin to roll through. all of that will push toward the north and east. you see how the computer model forecast picks up nicely? we like to see that. that is good initialization which is what we call it. if it didn't have that, we won't believe the rest of it here. t...