Tropical Cyclones

Description

Tropical cyclones, also called hurricanes and typhoons, cause catastrophic damage when they strike land. When a cyclone’s fury unleashes on population centers, death, injury, and wholesale destruction follow. This program explores the life cycle of cyclones: how atmospheric conditions, ocean temperatures, and the Earth’s rotation combine to create them and how, driven by winds, they eventually weaken after moving over land.

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8 min 32 sec

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