In the midlatitudes, storm systems transport momentum, energy, and water throughout the atmosphere. Because weather is fundamentally linked to global climate through ocean circulation, carbon cycling, and other climate system feedbacks, numerous studies have sought to predict how future global warming will change storm intensity. Paul O'Gorman (pp. 19176-19180) used present-day meteorological observations of seasonal storm track cycles to confirm a linear relationship between storm intensity and a thermodynamic quantity known as "mean available potential energy," or MAPE.
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