Hurricanes can be thought of as a heat engine; obtaining its heat - TopicsExpress



          

Hurricanes can be thought of as a heat engine; obtaining its heat input from the warm, humid air over the tropical ocean... An average hurricane produces 1.5 cm/day (0.6 inches/day) of rain inside a circle of radius 665 km (360 n.mi) Converting this to a volume of rain gives 2.1 x 1016 cm3/day. A cubic cm of rain weighs 1 gm. Using the latent heat of condensation, this amount rain required and then condensed water at a rate of power equal to 5.2 x 1019 Joules/day or 6.0 x 1014 Watts. This is equivalent to 200 times the world-wide electrical generating capacity.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 01:38:43 +0000

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