Tropical cyclone | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-26

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00:03:43 1 Physical structure
00:04:18 1.1 Wind field
00:05:51 1.2 Eye and center
00:07:47 1.3 Rapid deepening
00:08:53 1.4 Size
00:11:06 2 Physics and energetics
00:11:54 2.1 Secondary circulation: a Carnot heat engine
00:13:41 2.2 Primary circulation: rotating winds
00:16:13 2.3 Maximum potential intensity
00:20:07 2.3.1 Derivation
00:30:23 2.3.2 Characteristic values and variability on Earth
00:33:39 2.4 Interaction with the upper ocean
00:34:45 3 Major basins and related warning centers
00:36:33 4 Formation
00:37:07 4.1 Times
00:38:07 4.2 Factors
00:40:07 4.3 Locations
00:41:17 5 Movement
00:41:39 5.1 Environmental steering
00:43:27 5.2 Beta drift
00:44:35 5.3 Multiple storm interaction
00:45:24 5.4 Interaction with the mid-latitude westerlies
00:46:10 5.5 Landfall
00:46:51 5.6 Changes caused by El Niño–Southern Oscillation
00:48:10 6 Dissipation
00:48:19 6.1 Factors
00:51:20 6.2 Artificial dissipation
00:53:28 7 Effects
00:57:01 7.1 Preparedness and response
00:59:27 8 Observation and forecasting
00:59:37 8.1 Observation
01:01:55 8.2 Forecasting
01:03:50 9 Classifications, terminology, and naming
01:04:01 9.1 Intensity classifications
01:06:05 9.1.1 Potential tropical cyclone
01:06:34 9.1.2 Tropical depression
01:07:06 9.1.3 Tropical storm
01:08:01 9.1.4 Hurricane or typhoon
01:09:08 9.2 Origin of storm terms
01:09:36 9.3 Numbering
01:10:16 9.4 Naming
01:12:43 10 Notable tropical cyclones
01:14:52 11 Long-term activity trends
01:21:52 11.1 Climate change
01:28:47 12 Related cyclone types
01:31:53 13 Popular culture
01:33:31 14 See also
01:34:42 15 References



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A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain. Depending on its location and strength, a tropical cyclone is referred to by different names, including hurricane (), typhoon (), tropical storm, cyclonic storm, tropical depression, and simply cyclone. A hurricane is a tropical cyclone that occurs in the Atlantic Ocean and northeastern Pacific Ocean, and a typhoon occurs in the northwestern Pacific Ocean; in the south Pacific or Indian Ocean, comparable storms are referred to simply as "tropical cyclones" or "severe cyclonic storms"."Tropical" refers to the geographical origin of these systems, which form almost exclusively over tropical seas. "Cyclone" refers to their winds moving in a circle, whirling round their central clear eye, with their winds blowing counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. The opposite direction of circulation is due to the Coriolis effect. Tropical cyclones typically form over large bodies of relatively warm water. They derive their energy through the evaporation of water from the ocean surface, which ultimately recondenses into clouds and rain when moist air rises and cools to saturation. This energy source differs from that of mid-latitude cyclonic storms, such as nor'easters and European windstorms, which are fueled primarily by horizontal temperature contrasts. Tropical cyclones are typically between 100 and 2,000 km (62 and 1,243 mi) in diameter.
The strong rotating winds of a tropical cyclone are a result of the conservation of angular momentum imparted by the Earth's rotation as air flows inwards toward the axis of rotation. As a result, they rarely form within 5° of the equator. Tropical cyclones are almost unknown in the South Atlantic due to a consistently strong wind shear and a weak Intertropical Convergence Zone. Also, the African easterly jet and areas of atmospheric instability which give rise to cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, along with  ...