EES-1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Water Vapor, Northern Hemisphere
18 Nov 2016
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Rip currents narrow currents that flow straight out to sea. Beach shoreline made of sand and pebbles. Jetties rock walls that protect harbor entrances. Breakwaters diminish erosive power of waves along the shoreline. Refracted waves curve and focus energy to the sides of headlands. Over time, irregular coasts are straightened by erosion. Coral atolls reefs formed on a subsiding volcano. Hurricanes form over tropical regions and require sea surface t > 26 c. Form over warm tropical ocean waters off west africa. This heated air causes more condensation and rain. Over time, a tropical depression (23 mph) gains strength to a tropical storm (39 mph) and then hurricane (75+ mph). Coriolis effect earth"s rotation deflecting air currents in different directions in the northern and southern hemisphere. In the northern hemisphere, hurricanes winds rotate counterclockwise. The 2005 hurricane season set a number of new records.
