Are Special Processes at Work in the Rapid Intensification of Tropical Cyclones?
Probably not. Frequency distributions of intensification and dissipation developed from synthetic open-ocean tropical cyclone data show no evidence of significant departures from exponential distributions, though there is some evidence for a fat tail of dissipation rates. This suggests that no speci...
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| author | Kowch, Roman Emanuel, Kerry Andrew |
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| description | Probably not. Frequency distributions of intensification and dissipation developed from synthetic open-ocean tropical cyclone data show no evidence of significant departures from exponential distributions, though there is some evidence for a fat tail of dissipation rates. This suggests that no special factors govern high intensification rates and that tropical cyclone intensification and dissipation are controlled by statistically random environmental and internal variability. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/983912022-10-02T03:28:16Z Are Special Processes at Work in the Rapid Intensification of Tropical Cyclones? Kowch, Roman Emanuel, Kerry Andrew Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Emanuel, Kerry Andrew Probably not. Frequency distributions of intensification and dissipation developed from synthetic open-ocean tropical cyclone data show no evidence of significant departures from exponential distributions, though there is some evidence for a fat tail of dissipation rates. This suggests that no special factors govern high intensification rates and that tropical cyclone intensification and dissipation are controlled by statistically random environmental and internal variability. National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant AGS1032244) 2015-09-08T15:47:24Z 2015-09-08T15:47:24Z 2015-03 2014-12 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0027-0644 1520-0493 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98391 Kowch, Roman, and Kerry Emanuel. “Are Special Processes at Work in the Rapid Intensification of Tropical Cyclones?” Monthly Weather Review 143, no. 3 (March 2015): 878–882. © 2015 American Meteorological Society https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2066-2082 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/mwr-d-14-00360.1 Monthly Weather Review Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Meteorological Society American Meteorological Society |
| spellingShingle | Kowch, Roman Emanuel, Kerry Andrew Are Special Processes at Work in the Rapid Intensification of Tropical Cyclones? |
| title | Are Special Processes at Work in the Rapid Intensification of Tropical Cyclones? |
| title_full | Are Special Processes at Work in the Rapid Intensification of Tropical Cyclones? |
| title_fullStr | Are Special Processes at Work in the Rapid Intensification of Tropical Cyclones? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Are Special Processes at Work in the Rapid Intensification of Tropical Cyclones? |
| title_short | Are Special Processes at Work in the Rapid Intensification of Tropical Cyclones? |
| title_sort | are special processes at work in the rapid intensification of tropical cyclones |
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