Warm ocean surface water – about 79 degrees and above – provides increasing heat energy that is released through evaporation. That heat triggers an upward motion, helping form clusters of storm clouds and the rotating circulation that can form rain bands around a vortex.
Author Archives: Jhordanne Jones/Purdue University
Jhordanne Jones is a NOAA Climate & Global Change postdoc fellow hosted by Purdue University. Her research examines the degree of predictability achieved from large-scale environmental phenomena for seasonal tropical cyclone activity. Tools being used to explore this TC-environment predictability are global reanalysis datasets, climate model output, and simulations.