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Science 22 September 1967:
Vol. 157. no. 3795, pp. 1389 - 1399
DOI: 10.1126/science.157.3795.1389
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Characteristics of Hurricanes

Analyses and calculations made from measurements by aircraft result in a fairly complete description

Banner I. Miller 1

1 Prediction Development Branch of the National Hurricane Research Laboratory, ESSA, Miami, Florida

Tropical cyclones derive their energy from the release of latent heat of condensation; they have been compared to simple heat engines (6), although they are not very efficient ones since only about 3 percent or less of the heat released within the cyclone is converted into kinetic energy. Tropical cyclones are warm-core, direct circulations in the sense that ascent takes place at warmer temperatures than does descent, thus converting heat energy into potential energy and potential energy to kinetic energy.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Caribbean climates.
O. E. Granger (1985)
Progress in Physical Geography 9, 16-43
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