How Typhoons Develop Flashcards
What is a tropical cyclone?
A low pressure system that forms over tropical oceans, Anne brings wind and thunderstorms.
What is a typhoon?
Typhoons form in the North Pacific Ocean.
What is a hurricane?
A hurricane forms in the Atlantic Ocean.
What is a Cyclone?
A Cyclone forms in the South Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean.
How do typhoons form?
Water evaporates, moist air rises creating a low pressure area. Air from high pressure area rushes toward the LPA, causing the water to condense and form clouds. The clouds pick up the Coriolis effect, causing the winds to rotate faster, becoming a tropical depression.
What are the conditions for typhoon formation?
Continuous evaporation, water cycles, difference in air pressure, and convergent winds.
What is the Coriolis effect?
Wind rotates counterclockwise around a storm center, and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere
What are convergent winds?
Accumulation if high-speed winds moving toward a particular area.
What are the parts of a tropical cyclone?
The eye, eyewall, subsidence zone/inner bands, and the outer bands.
What is the eye if the storm?
It has calm winds.
What is in the eyewall?
It has a maximum wind zone with torrential rain and waves as high as 70ft
what is in the inner bands?
Strong winds, little to no precipitation, and large waves
What is in the outer bands?
Gusty and inconsistent winds, and heavy precipitation.
