On the size distribution of Atlantic tropical cyclones

Details On the size distribution of Atlantic tropical cyclones On the size distribution of Atlantic tropical cyclones

Jul 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009georl..3614803d&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 36, Issue 14, CiteID L14803

Mathematics

Probability

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Atmospheric Processes: Tropical Meteorology, Atmospheric Processes: Mesoscale Meteorology, Atmospheric Processes: Climatology (1616, 1620, 3305, 4215, 8408), Nonlinear Geophysics: Probability Distributions, Heavy And Fat-Tailed (3265), Atmospheric Processes: Theoretical Modeling

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The size of a tropical cyclone is known to vary considerably across storms, though little is understood about the environmental and internal factors that modulate it. Making use of newly available extended tropical cyclone records that include information about storm structure, we examine the size distribution of Atlantic tropical cyclones, using as a metric the radius of vanishing storm winds normalized by the theoretical upper bound given by the ratio of the potential intensity to the Coriolis parameter. We find that the distribution of this normalized outer radius is closely log-normal.

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