https://x.com/nbergwx/status/1843444771135861007?s=46&t=9FPxCfjU5uuRXH3QXtrs8w
From this tweet. Additional, how would we know, and how would this be a stationary target given global warming or general changes?
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Kerry Emanuel at MIT has defined an estimate for the “maximum potential intensity” for a hurricane by balancing dissipation due to drag vs. the energy released by treating the hurricane as a heat engine. Basically this depends on the temperature of the surface vs. the temperature of outflowing air at the bottom of the stratosphere. The bigger this difference is, the stronger the storm you can have.
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