• DOI:10.1007/BF01030791
Corpus ID: 123337988

Dissipative heating and hurricane intensity

@article{Bister1998DissipativeHA,
  title={Dissipative heating and hurricane intensity},
  author={M. Bister and K. Emanuel},
  journal={Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics},
  year={1998},
  volume={65},
  pages={233-240}
}

M. Bister, K. Emanuel

Published 1998

Environmental Science

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

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SummaryDissipative heating has not been accounted for in either numerical simulations of hurricanes or in theories for the maximum intensity of hurricanes. We argue that the bulk of dissipative heating occurs in the atmospheric boundary layer near the radius of maximum winds and, using both theory and numerical simulation, show that dissipative heating increases maximum wind speeds in tropical cyclones by about 20%.