eyewall

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• For instance, "features such as well-defined hurricane eyewalls and convective cloud clusters appeared for the first time," said William Putman, acting lead of the Advanced Software Technology Group in Goddard's Software Integration and Visualization Office.

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• Hurricane landfall occurs when all or part of the hurricane eyewall crosses the coastline (Eisner and Kara 1999).

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• The eyewall went over our home, and it looked like a bomb went off in the neighborhood.

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• The surface winds are always strongest nearest the eyewall, and they decrease the further away you go.

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• The winds diminish rapidly moving from the eyewall to the inside of the relatively cloud-free eye, where calm winds can exist.

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• The eyewall is where the strongest winds occur, which encircle the warmest air in the eye of the hurricane.

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• Sandy has now strengthened rapidly into a hurricane, acquiring heavy wrapped banding that has allowed an eyewall to form, causing a tightening of the wind field.

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• The showers and thunderstorms where all of this energy is released are usually organized into bands (sometimes called "rainbands" or "feeder bands"), as well as into an "eyewall" encircling the center of the storm.

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• "Once the model goes below 10-kilometer resolution, features such as well-defined hurricane eyewalls and convective cloud clusters appear for the first time," said William Putman, acting lead of the Advanced Software Technology Group in Goddard's Software Integration and Visualization Office.

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• As the hurricane approached, we prepared for the violent winds and rains of the eyewall.

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