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YouTube - NASA’s Towers in the Tempest

2007/09/28/1157

RTFA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUG4-TEqPYc

A hurricane’s “hot towers” can increase its intensity by adding power to boost the storm’s heat engine. For the first time, research meteorologists have run complex simulations of these phenomena using a very fine temporal resolution. They have combined this new simulation data with satellite observations to study the innerworking of the “hot towers” in never-before-seen detail.

Very cool video about hurricanes. via information aesthetics

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