Update #6--sexy southern ana's naked swirl
Posted by Mike_Doran on 8/17/2009, 11:52 pm
I suppose it's just something that you don't think about.  It's like the paper JAC linked today.  Some feel the elephant and observe long and ropey and others large and round and of course they are both right.  The fun comes when you have felt both the tail and the belly--and you can tell everyone that they are both part of the elephant.

I have written about this for years, so sorry if it is boring to those who have heard it before.  A tropical storm with sufficient surface winds and low pressure causes CO2 to come out of the ocean.  This is the Bates et al 1999 research (Nature) on Hurricane Felix.  Bates et al found that almost 1/3 of the CO2 came out of the ocean.  Again, sorry to bore, but it's just like shaking a beer and then cracking it open--you have the aggitation and then the change of pressure--and the CO2 comes out.  Likewise the winds and lower pressure of a tropical storm will cause relatively more CO2 to be included in the storm, and then that has CONDUCTIVITY meaning.

This is why even a naked swirl has an electrical organizational value.  

There have been some discussions about the mid level circulation which is largely NORTH of hispanolia regenerating north.  Presently there is a LLC again just IMHO SOUTH.  There is mimimal convection with it.  Inbetween NORTH and SOUTH are 10,000 plus mountains.  Normally convection would be hampered, of course, by these huge mountains, but if what the mid gets from the lower is simply air with higher CO2 (and not moisture/latent heat/theta t), you can see how organization would follow electrically.  
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An electrics discussion of the Atlantic twin A and B storms. - Mike_Doran, 8/16/2009, 1:33 am
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