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Are Special Processes at Work in the Rapid Intensification of Tropical Cyclones?

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Kowch, Roman; Emanuel, Kerry Andrew
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Abstract
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.
Date issued
2015-03
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98391
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Journal
Monthly Weather Review
Publisher
American Meteorological Society
Citation
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
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0027-0644
1520-0493

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