Re: Track is one thing, intensity forecast is another
Posted by JAC on 8/19/2009, 12:26 pm
So, was that about the mass of the system?

I think the short answer is the larger the system's mass, the slower it is to spin up or down.

F=ma.

For a bigger m, you need a proportionally bigger F to get the same a.

Thermo wise, the same thinking.  You need  a higher core temp for a bigger system to get the same wind speeds.

I have seen massive TC's in the Bay of Bengal with huge core temps and they barely got to a Cat1.

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