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Participant: part of or influencing processesTropical cyclones
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- Tropical cyclones form over ocean warmer than 26 C down to about 50 m, more than about 500 km from the equator, with low wind shear, a moist mid-troposphere and
- A mature cyclone runs as a Carnot heat engine: it draws heat from the warm sea, releases latent heat in the eyewall and exhausts it near the tropopause
- With 2 C of warming, cyclone rain rates rise about 14%, peak winds about 5% and the share of category 4-5 storms about 13%; translation speed already slowed 10%
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