RE: https://eupolicy.social/@Akshay/116397375680946291

A reminder that storms are thermodynamic heat engines. They use temperature difference to generate “work” (ie wind and motion). So hot seas amplify their intensity.

@sellathechemist The atmosphere is a resource that keeps on giving, when teaching thermodynamics - from latent heat transfer to crude models of hurricanes as Carnot cycles and phase diagrams of water-salt mixtures…; it is all there and so relevant for the everyday life (of undergraduates). Opening class discussing a weather phenomenon going on outside the classroom window is so much fun! #academia #teaching #academicchatter
@sellathechemist this is exactly how I teach thermo in my gen ed environmental chem course
@GetzlerChem Have you got the video showing the cold wake in the ocean behind Atlantic hurricanes?
@sellathechemist I don’t, but would love to have it. The cooling is due to more than water drawn up from below?