🌀 Cyclone Heat Engine: Eyewall Angular Momentum, SST and Potential Intensity
A tropical cyclone as a heat engine: sea-surface temperature sets the Carnot-type potential intensity, a Holland wind profile and gradient-wind balance shape the eyewall, and inflowing air spins up by angular momentum conservation until friction, shear or the Coriolis threshold limits it.
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⚙ Under the hood
A tropical cyclone as a heat engine: sea-surface temperature sets the Carnot-type potential intensity, a Holland wind profile and gradient-wind balance shape the eyewall, and inflowing air spins up by angular momentum conservation until friction, shear or the Coriolis threshold limits it.
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