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Based on the cloud structure, a mature typhoon can roughly be divided into
three regions, namely the eye, the eye wall and the spiral rain bands (Figure
1).
Figure 1. Clouds of a tropical cyclone (The cloud imagery was originally captured
by GMS-5 of JMA)
The "eye" is roughly circular and is found at the centre of a typhoon. Its size
varies and can range from below 10 km to over 200 km across, but most are
about 30 to 60 km in diameter.
Winds are comparatively light and the weather is fair inside the eye. There
is little or no rain and one can sometimes see the blue sky or stars. The eye
is the region of lowest surface pressure (Figure 2 & 3) and highest
temperatures. Compared with its surroundings, the eye may be up to 2°C
warmer at the surface and 10°C or more at an altitude of 12 km.
Figure 2. The mean sea level pressure and wind speed over a location during the
passage of a typhoon eye
Figure 3. The air pressure recorded at Lau Fau Shan when Typhoon Dujuan was
close to Hong Kong (2-3 September 2003)
The eye is surrounded by the "eye wall", a roughly circular ring of thick
clouds. Inside the eye, the air is sinking. On the other hand, the eye wall
has very deep convection (i.e., ascent) and is the area of highest surface
winds and heavy rain in the typhoon. Figure 4 shows how the winds at Lau
Fau Shan changed during the passage of Typhoon Dujuan in 2003. They
increased significantly as the eye wall of Dujuan approached and decreased
rapidly as the storm moved away.
Figure 4. The wind speed recorded at Lau Fau Shan when Typhoon Dujuan was
close to Hong Kong (2-3 September 2003)
Convection outside the eye is organized into long, narrow rain bands which
are oriented roughly in the same direction as the surface wind. Because these
bands appear to spiral into the centre of a tropical cyclone, they are
sometimes called "spiral rain bands".
Eye (cyclone)
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The eye is a region of mostly calm weather at the center of strong tropical cyclones.
The eye of a storm is a roughly circular area, typically 30–65 kilometres (19–40 mi) in
diameter. It is surrounded by the eyewall, a ring of towering thunderstorms where the
most severe weather and highest winds occur. The cyclone's lowest barometric
pressure occurs in the eye and can be as much as 15 percent lower than the pressure
outside the storm.[1]
In strong tropical cyclones, the eye is characterized by light winds and clear skies,
surrounded on all sides by a towering, symmetric eyewall. In weaker tropical cyclones,
the eye is less well defined and can be covered by the central dense overcast, an area
of high, thick clouds that show up brightly on satellite imagery. Weaker or disorganized
storms may also feature an eyewall that does not completely encircle the eye or have
an eye that features heavy rain. In all storms, however, the eye is the location of the
storm's minimum barometric pressure—where the atmospheric pressure at sea level is
the lowest
The Eye Wall
a hurricane's most devastating region
Located just outside of the eye is the eye wall. This is the location within
a hurricane where the most damaging winds and intense rainfall is found. The image
below is of a hurricane (called cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere).
Eye walls are called as such because oftentimes the eye is surrounded by a vertical
wall of clouds. The eye wall can be seen in the picture above as the thick ring
surrounding the eye.
At the surface, the winds are rushing towards the center of a hurricane -- forcing air
upwards at the center. The coriolis force acts on these surface winds, and in the
Northern Hemisphere, the deflection is to the right. The convergence at the eye wall is
so strong here that the air is being lifted faster and with more force here than any other
location of the hurricane. Thus, the moisture transport from the ocean and
subsequent latent heat production is maximized.
The eye of a hurricane is an area of calm, often clear air at the center of
a hurricane. The eye wall of a hurricane is the area surrounding the eye,
where the strongest winds are.
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Saranggola
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Namangha siya.
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