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    Curving and Recurving of T.R.S.

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    Tropical cyclones like hurricanes have angular momentum relative to the Earth's rotation axis. This causes them to precess as they move with the Earth's rotation. This precession subjects them to a global torque that accelerates them toward the pole in their hemisphere. As they move to higher latitudes while conserving their angular momentum relative to the Earth's axis, they also accelerate eastward, causing hurricanes to initially move west but then recurve and turn north and east.

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    Curving and Recurving of T.R.S.

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    Tropical cyclones like hurricanes have angular momentum relative to the Earth's rotation axis. This causes them to precess as they move with the Earth's rotation. This precession subjects them to a global torque that accelerates them toward the pole in their hemisphere. As they move to higher latitudes while conserving their angular momentum relative to the Earth's axis, they also accelerate eastward, causing hurricanes to initially move west but then recurve and turn north and east.

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    Tropical cyclones like hurricanes have angular momentum relative to the Earth's rotation axis. This causes them to precess as they move with the Earth's rotation. This precession subjects them to a global torque that accelerates them toward the pole in their hemisphere. As they move to higher latitudes while conserving their angular momentum relative to the Earth's axis, they also accelerate eastward, causing hurricanes to initially move west but then recurve and turn north and east.

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    Curving and Recurving of T.R.S.

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    Tropical cyclones like hurricanes have angular momentum relative to the Earth's rotation axis. This causes them to precess as they move with the Earth's rotation. This precession subjects them to a global torque that accelerates them toward the pole in their hemisphere. As they move to higher latitudes while conserving their angular momentum relative to the Earth's axis, they also accelerate eastward, causing hurricanes to initially move west but then recurve and turn north and east.

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    When an entity with angular momentum about its axis, such

    as a gyroscope, is subjected to a torque it precesses. If it is


    forced to precess it experiences a torque. Tropical cyclones
    (hurricanes, typhoons etc.) have angular moment with
    respect to their axis. They turn with the Earth's rotation and
    are thus forced to precess. This results in their being subject
    to a global torque which accelerates them toward the Earth's
    pole in their hemisphere. Hurricanes are thus accelerated
    toward the North Pole.

    There appears to be no other explanation of


    why tropical storms move poleward.

    These tropical cyclones also have angular momentum with


    respect to the Earth's axis. The conservation of this angular
    momentum means that as they move to higher latitudes they
    experience an acceleration to the east. Thus a hurricane that
    develops in the low latitude Atlantic and appears to move
    west begins to turn north. It thus recurves to the east as it
    moves north. A Southern Hemispheric tropical cyclone such
    as an Australian one moves west and then recurves to the
    southeast.

    CMET. LUCKNOW

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