Weather Phenomena on Planets and Tropical Cyclone Dynamics

Venus

Weather is way more extreme and hostile, and has too much of a greenhouse effect.

Mars

Weather is cool and thinner.

Titan (Saturn's moon)

Cold, Methane and Ethane rain and seas.

Mid-latitude cyclones (extratropical cyclones)

Cause blizzards, dust storms, created huge dust storm in Australia, moving clockwise.

Tropical cyclones

Form in 0-30 degrees (north and south but not at equator).

Intertropical convergence zone

Tropical cyclones don't form at equator due to this zone.

Tropical cyclone structure

Cross section is made up of thousands of thunderstorms, eye is clear and calm.

Coriolis effect

Counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

Saffir-Simpson scale

Categories hurricanes from 1-5 increasing strength, with category 3 having wind speeds of 111-129.

Tropical cyclone naming

Includes remembrance names, military designations, women's names, and modern system beginning in 1979.

Cyclones

Found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific.

Typhoons

Found in the Western North Pacific.

Tropical cyclone hazards

Include waves and storm surge.

Hurricane Gustav (Sep. 2008)

Involved massive evacuations and emergency preparedness.

Thunderstorm patterns

Include ordinary (isolated) cell, towering cumulus stage, mature stage cumulonimbus, dissipating stage, squall line, and supercell.

Supercell

Better organized wind circulation, longer-lasting, and much more likely to produce a tornado.

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