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As water evaporates from the warm ocean surface, it's forced upward in towering convective clouds that surround the eyewall and rainband regions of the storm. As the water vapor cools and condenses from a gas back to a liquid state it releases latent heat.
Animation courtesy NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio | |||
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