Abstract: ropical 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 ...

Abstract: Recent research has shown that a variety of wavelike oscillations in the tropics may be explained by instabilities driven by wind-induced surface heat exchange (WISHE). All such studies to date have implicitly assumed that ...

Abstract: urricane track forecasts have improved steadily over the past few decades, yet forecasting hurricane intensity remains challenging. Of special concern are the rare instances of tropical cyclones that intensify rapidly just ...

Abstract: Cumulative distribution functions (CDFs) of tropical cyclone wind speeds are calculated using best track data from the North Atlantic and western North Pacific basins. Wind speeds are normalized by theoretical potential ...

Abstract: Tropical cyclone activity has long been understood to respond to changing properties of the large-scale atmospheric and oceanic environment. In this essay, evidence for changing tropical cyclone activity is reviewed, and ...

Abstract: Revised estimates of kinetic energy production by tropical cyclones in the Atlantic and western North Pacific are presented. These show considerable variability on interannual-to-multidecadal time scales. In the Atlantic, ...

Abstract: While there is a pressing need to understand and predict the response of tropical cyclones to climate change, global climate models are at present too coarse to resolve tropical cyclones to the extent necessary to simulate ...

Abstract: This study reports a rapid method of analysis for evaluating the flatness of the façades of historical buildings. This method applies topographic, digital photogrammetric, and image processing techniques to measurements ...