Tropical Storm and Climactic Theory Flashcards
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Requirements to form? (Name 2) - Tropical Storms
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Seas warmer than 27°C, Between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn (23° North and South) and usually 5-15° North and a south of Equator
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Aspects (Name 3) - Tropical Storms
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Intense area of low pressure, uprising of hot air which cools and condensed to form cumulonimbus storm clouds, eye wall where weather is worst, eye where air descends rapidly.
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What makes it spin? - Tropical Storms
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The Coriolis Effect, caused by the rotation of the earth which makes storms spin anti clockwise