Re: Back on Line? (Hurricane)

[roger haar <haar@physics.Arizona.EDU>]

Hi,
	The central key to understanding this gaining and losing energy is
that energy in a storm is stored in the latent heat of evaporization of
water.  That is more water vapor means more energy. Warm tropical oceans
give up lots of water vapor.

Thanks
Roger Haar

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On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, kyle forinash wrote:

> As long we are on the subject of hurricanes- can anyone give a short
> explanation of how hurricanes come to be, in particular, why do they gain
> energy while over water (but lose energy over land)?
>
> kyle
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> At 2:55 PM -0500 9/29/98, A. R. Marlow wrote:
> > We have been off line for a few days because of hurricane Georges, so this
> > is just a test to see why I have no physics-l mail.
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