Meteorology & Science
Understand the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale, storm surge physics, and atmospheric dynamics.
📚 Category Guides & Articles (6)
Hurricane Otis: How a Cat 5 Monster Blinded Global Supercomputers
Deep-dive meteorological retrospective on Hurricane Otis's 115 mph/24h rapid intensification over oceanic warm eddies and why supercomputers failed to predict it.
Typhoon Doksuri: How Mountain Blocking Trapped a 1,000-Mile Rain Train
Meteorological investigation into how Typhoon Doksuri's remnant low collided with the Taihang Mountains and a high-pressure dam, triggering historic inland floods.
Eyewall Replacement Cycles: Why Collapsing Storm Eyes Double the Damage Area
Doppler radar and microwave telemetry breakdown of the Eyewall Replacement Cycle (ERC): why an inner eyewall collapse temporarily drops peak winds but doubles the integrated kinetic energy.
Storm Surge Hydrodynamics & Coastal Inundation: Inverse Barometer Effect, Shoaling & Global SLOSH Modeling
In-depth hydrodynamic analysis of storm surge physics: Inverse Barometer Effect (1cm/1hPa), Ekman wind-stress transport, Green's Law shallow-water shoaling, and NOAA SLOSH modeling.
Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale: Category 1–5 Physics, Structural Damage & Global Cyclone Scale Comparison
A technical guide to Saffir-Simpson Categories 1–5, wind-pressure physics, structural damage, outages, and NOAA, CMA, JMA and PAGASA scale differences.
Tropical Cyclone Eye & Eyewall Dynamics: Pressure-Gradient Force, Eyewall Replacement Cycles and Rapid Intensification
Expert guide to tropical cyclone eye dynamics, pressure gradients, ERC cycles, 30-kt/24-h rapid intensification and Dvorak satellite analysis.