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An account is given of the dynamic balance and the thermodynamic considerations which underlie the intensification of a tropical disturbance into a mature hurricane. In particular, it is deduced that the e-folding time for the later stages of the intensification process is of the order of 16 h but that the eye formation itself can occur on a much shorter time scale.
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G. F. Carrier (1971) studied this question.
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