Global Warming Is Expected to Raise Hurricane Intensity!

[Stormsfury]

Now here is a great educational thought provoking thread..

You know what that means??Its gonna get deleted or locked.

Not as long as don't see useless garbage posts like this on it, it won't ...

Understood?

[wabbitoid]

On thing I'm interested in is how a hotter troposphere expands in the lower lattitudes, increasing the possibility of "folding" as the tropopause stis at the same lower altitutde up north. If these "folds" are what form the seed of a tropical storm, it would stand to reason that a taller tropopause would create more hurricanes -- as Dr. Hurricane noted effectively transporting the extra heat from the tropics both upward and northward, to allieviate the difference.

[DoctorHurricane2003]

I don't quite understand your point, wabbit.

In any planet with an atmosphere....the atmosphere is thinner at the poles than at the equator. This is why mid latitude and tropical cyclones above 40 N do not get very high cloud tops.

[PurdueWx80]

Tropopause folding may aid in the development of some winter-time extratropical storms, but the process has no bearing on tropical systems. Tropopause folding refers to the influx of stratospheric air into the troposphere by means of the jet stream. It's much more complicated than that, but the end result is a contribution of vorticity advection over the cyclone, which aids in development as vertical motions are increased.