Dictionary definition: ‘eye’ of storm

Article: Tropical cyclone eye thermodynamics
Monthly Weather Review;  December 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... the source of the eye's warmth and ... Subsidence-induced adiabatic warming increases the thickness ... lower part of the eye into the eyewall ... the sinking and adiabatic warming, and hence the ... falls. Inside the eye, where the wind ...

Dictionary definition: ‘eye’ of storm
A Dictionary of Ecology;      275 words ...‘eye’ of storm The central ... diameter of the ‘eye’ averages 20 km ... km or more. The ‘eye’ is an area of some air subsidence which produces adiabatic warming.

Article: A Polar Low over the Japan Sea on 21 January 1997. Part II: A ...
Monthly Weather Review;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... shaped cloud pattern, and the "eye" structure near the vortex ... deviation from axisymmetry. The eye, almost free of cloud, was ... core is mainly caused by the adiabatic warming due to the downdraft. Two ... cloud pattern and a clear "eye" structure were observed from ...

Article: Unusual foehn winds near the Smoky Mountains
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Rockies and the Alps and, thus, a smaller potential for adiabatic warming. However, the Smoky Mountains are some of the highest ... rain ahead of a warm front over middle Tennessee ended the adiabatic warming from the southeast winds. The fact that the Knoxville ...

Article: Radiative influence of Antarctica on the polar-night vortex
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  May 15, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... changes of opposite sign, which result indirectly through adiabatic warming by the induced residual meridional circulation. Collectively ... which regulates polar temperatures through subsidence and adiabatic warming. Another feature of the Southern Hemisphere, however ...

Article: Interaction of a warm-season frontal system with the coastal ...
Monthly Weather Review;  August 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... simulation of the event shows that both solar heating and adiabatic warming from downslope flow over the Rockies and the Cascade Mountains ... temperatures, while the subsiding motions aloft result in adiabatic warming and an inversion or stable layer that caps a shallow marine ...

Article: A Synoptic Climatology of Summertime Heat and Humidity in the ...
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Ocean. An upstream 500-hPa ridge produces subsidence and adiabatic warming in the midlevels of the troposphere. Composite patterns ... upper-tropospheric ridge that induces descending air and adiabatic warming; 2) advection of warm air; and 3) strong solar insolation ...