Unanswered Questions
55 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Why is wind shear consistently high in the South Atlantic?
I have read that perhaps the largest reason that tropical cyclones are so rare in the South Atlantic is due to chronically-high vertical wind shear which inhibits their structural development. But ...
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Using salinity to predict rainfall
Recently, a new method has been proposed by Ray Schmitt (WHOI) and collaborators to use salinity patterns in the ocean to predict weather events (more specifically, rainfall) at scales from weeks to ...
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Using Acummulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) for non-tropical cyclones
一个ccumulated cyclone energy (ACE) is used to measure and compare the activity of individual hurricanes and entire tropical cyclone seasons. It is calculated as an integral of the squares of hurricane ...
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Forced shallow-water equation with diabatic heating as the source term
How to obtain the divergence of velocity field $\left(\nabla.\mathbf{u}\right)$ with ${Q}$ (something proportional to the diabatic heating rate) as the source term from the thermodynamic equation? ...
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How common are volcanic-induced rain events?
Last year I did an online summer course on remote sensing of volcanoes held by the University of Hawaii at Hilo. During the course, we had a presentation about the monitoring campaign during the 2018 ...
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Free historical weather data API
Where can I find a free Python API that provides historical weather data (temperature, rainfall)? I'd need data of an Italian city, at least with hourly granularity.
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Roughly what proportion of a cloud does 'rain out'?
What proportion of the water in a cloud will 'rain out'? Or, comparing the cloud before and after it has rained, what proportion of the water is left afterwards? I really have no idea so am just ...
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一个re there any books, websites, etc. that have many practice problems for Skew-T diagrams and the atmospheric sciences in general?
I am asking because my Intro to Atmospheric Science class (lectures, labs, and the book) has not provided any practice examples of Skew-T diagrams, Coriolis force calculations, LCL (liquid ...
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Book recommendation on waves
I am looking for a book about waves in the context of Earth Science, the two main topics I have in mind are ocean waves and seismic waves. Explanations in a book like Understanding earth1 is too ...
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In the future, is the World Meteorological Organization going to allow Hurricanes Zeta, Eta, and Theta to exist simultaneously?
In the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season, we got all the way to Tropical Storm Zeta, which is the current record. This year we may very well surpass that. However, right after Zeta come Eta and then ...
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一个re hurricane storm surges smaller when the storms strike small islands?
My understanding of a storm surge is that it is caused by the hurricane "pushing" water towards the land. When a hurricane makes landfall, this water washes up on the short generating a storm surge. ...
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Why is the atmospheric pressure in a tropical cyclone lowest in the eye, even though it contains sinking air?
The lowest atmospheric pressure in a tropical cyclone is generally located in the eye at the center of the cyclone; however, the air in the eye is descending, while the air in the surrounding portions ...
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What are the most notable papers in tropical cyclone research?
一个quick Google scholar search indicates that 243,000 papers have the words "Tropical Cyclone." While scientific literature is considered valuable (predatory publishing and pseudo-scientific journals ...
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Is there any way to estimate, what is the percentage of the mass of a storm cloud that turns into rain?
I have calculated the mass of the storm cloud for Hurricane Sandy (year 2012, in the United States of America). The dimensions of Hurricane Sandy of 1800 km in diameter and 13 km in height. ...
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Does the hour of the day and the position on the sun have any influences on the formation of a hurricane?
I am writing an essay and cannot find if a hurricane is influenced by the position of the sun or the hour of the day.