Self-Stratification of Tropical Cyclone Outflow. Part II: Implications for Storm Intensification

Tropical cyclones intensify and are maintained by surface enthalpy fluxes that result from the thermodynamics disequilibrium that exists between the tropical oceans and atmosphere. While this general result has been known for at least a half century, the detailed nature of feedbacks between thermody...

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Main Author: Emanuel, Kerry Andrew
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Meteorological Society 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73666
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2066-2082