Most hurricanes
form over warm water near the equator.
Hurricanes
form over warm water near the equator.
When the intensity of ultraviolet light from the sun increases, temperature rises in this ozone rich air and weakens the downdraft, lowers the surface pressure and with it the strength of the trade winds that blow across the ocean to the low pressure zones that
form over the warm waters that accumulate in the west.
MPAs can also help with rising sea levels and the increasingly violent and energetic storms that
form over warmer waters, according to the paper.
Not exact matches
The Michigan Tech chamber works differently due to cloud mixing between a hot and cold surface, the same process that
forms clouds or fog
over a lake on fall days when the
water temperature is
warmer than the air temperature.
The Michigan Tech chamber creates clouds through cloud mixing between a hot and cold surface — the same process that
forms fog
over Portage Lake on fall days when the
water temperature is
warmer than the air temperature.
«Hurricanes almost always
form over ocean
water warmer than about 80 degrees F. in a belt of generally east - to - west flow called the trade winds.
Such
warming provides stronger fuel for the furious storms called tropical cyclones that
form over open
waters (known in the Atlantic as hurricanes).
These usually
form over tropical areas around the equator where the
water is
warm.
The reason ENSO has such a large impact on Earth radiant balance is that clouds dissipate
over warm water and
form over cool.
Over many decades this process
forms a deep lens of
warm, saline North Atlantic Central
Water.
Tropical cyclones are low pressure systems that
form over warm tropical
waters and have well defined wind circulations of at least gale force strength (sustained winds of 63 km / h or greater with gusts in excess of 90 km / h).
But, if an ordinary cyclone
forms over a
warm ocean, then the cyclone can suck up some of the
warm water high into the atmosphere.
When tropical cyclones — storm systems ranging in strength from tropical depressions to major hurricanes —
form over the Gulf of Mexico's
warm waters, they have a high chance of causing many deaths as well as widespread property damage in coastal communities.
With the slowly increasing SSTs as a result of global
warming, greater numbers of tropical depressions will likely
form, which,
over warm water may mature into tropical storms, which
over even
warmer water may strengthen to tropical cyclones.
Polar lows tend to
form when cold Arctic air flows
over relatively
warm open
water.
Both hurricanes and typhoons are strong tropical cyclones, which are storms that
form over warm ocean
waters, have a well defined center of circulation, and feed off of heat energy from the ocean.