Palmen (1948) was the first to show that practically all hurricanes form over oceans with minimum SST of 26 °C or higher. While higher ambient SST can lead to stronger tropical cyclones, cyclone intensity is much affected by SST cooling near the storm's center (Schade, 2000). Due to ...
Charney and Ellassen [1] proposed that the latent heat released into the clouds provides the necessary energy for the growth of hurricanes by providing positive feedback to large-scale convergence. Stoelinga [34], using a mesoscale numerical model, showed that the latent heat due to the ...