A critique of Emanuel's hurricane model
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Roger K. Smith; Michael T. Montgomery; Stefanie Vogl
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Article
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2008
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract We present a critique of Emanuel's steadyβstate hurricane model, which is a precursor to his theory for hurricane potential intensity (PI). We show that a major deficiency of the theory is the tacit assumption of gradient wind balance in the boundary layer, a layer that owes its existen