What is cyclone? Tornado? Hurricane?

Question

How are they formed? Can they be controlled?
Are certain area more likely to experience these than others?

Answer 1

A cyclone is a low pressure atmospheric mass. In the northern hemisphere they rotate counterclockwise. A high pressure mass is called an anticyclone and rotates clockwise.
Under certain circumstances, a cyclonic mass can get itself worked up into a frenzy and it will start winding itself up faster and tighter as conditions permit, until you end up with a hurricane.
Hurricanes and typhoons are the same animal depending on where you live. In the Atlantic (and often the North American Pacific coast, where they are quite rare) they are called hurricanes. Everywhere else in the world they are called typhoons.

Cyclones, hurricanes and tornadoes. To swipe a line from the 3 Stooges, they're all "the same thing...only different".

To go a step beyond your question, tornadoes are a special breed of spinning low pressure air mass. For one thing, we still don't know for sure how they form. One big theory scientists were studying about 10 years ago was the possibility that fluid mechanics generated rapidly spinning HORIZONTAL tubes of air inside storm cells. Somehow these tubes are knocked off kilter and one end of a tube (or tubes) would suddenly start descending towards the ground. (and I now wonder what came of that study/theory?)

Well, that's my 2 cents. Hope it helps...

Answer 2

A cyclone, technically, is any storm with a rotary wind pattern. Both tornadoes and hurricanes are cyclones, although obviously of different kinds. Cyclones form under specific circumstances which there's no room to detail here. It is not possible to control cyclones with existing technology, no matter what Jim Bakker or the moonbats in New Orleans tell you. Some areas are more likely to experience these - to discover which, you'll have to finish your own homework.

Answer 3

Simply stated, cyclones and anticyclones are regions of relatively low and high pressure, respectively. They occur over most of the Earth in a variety of sizes ranging from the very large, semipermanent examples described above to smaller, highly mobile systems. The latter are the focus of discussion in this section...

a small-diameter column of violently rotating air developed within a convective cloud and in contact with the ground. Tornadoes occur most often in association with thunderstorms during the spring and summer in the mid-latitudes of both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres...

Answer 4

In meteorology, a cyclone is an area of low atmospheric pressure characterised by inward spiraling winds that spin counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere of the Earth, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere.[1][2] Covering a wide variety of meteorological phenomena such as tropical cyclones, extratropical cyclones and tornadoes, the generic term is rarely used by meteorologists without a qualifier.Structure
There are a number of structural characteristics common to all cyclones. Their center is the area of lowest atmospheric pressure, often known in mature tropical and subtropical cyclones as the eye. Near the center, the pressure gradient force (from the pressure in the center of the cyclone compared to the pressure outside the cyclone) and the Coriolis force must be in an approximate balance, or the cyclone would collapse on itself as a result of the difference in pressure. The wind flow around a large cyclone is counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere as a result of the Coriolis effect.A tornado is a violently rotating column of air which is in contact with both a cumulonimbus (or, in rare cases, cumulus) cloud base and the surface of the earth. Tornadoes can come in many shapes, but are typically in the form of a visible condensation funnel, with the narrow end touching the earth. Often, a cloud of debris encircles the lower portion of the funnel.

Most have winds of 110 mph (175 km/h) or less, are approximately 250 feet (75 meters) across, and travel a few miles (several kilometers) before dissipating. However, some tornadoes can have winds of more than 300 mph (480 km/h), be more than a mile (1.6 km) across, and stay on the ground for dozens of miles (more than 100 kilometers).[1][2][3]

They have been observed on every continent except Antarctica; however, a significant percentage of the world's tornadoes occur in the United States.[4] (approximately 75% of all that take place) This is mostly due to the unique geography of the country, which allows the conditions which breed strong, long-lived storms to occur many times a year. Other areas which commonly experience tornadoes include New Zealand, western and southeastern Australia, south-central Canada, northwestern Europe, Italy, south-central and eastern Asia, east-central South America, and Southern Africa.[5]A tropical cyclone is a warm storm system fueled by thunderstorms near its center. It feeds on the heat released when moist air rises and the water vapor in it condenses. The term describes the storm's origin in the tropics and its cyclonic nature, which means that its circulation is counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. Tropical cyclones are distinguished from other cyclonic windstorms such as nor'easters, European windstorms, and polar lows by the heat mechanism that fuels them, which makes them "warm core" storm systems. Depending on their location and strength, there are various terms by which tropical cyclones are known, such as hurricane, typhoon, tropical storm, cyclonic storm, and tropical depression.

Tropical cyclones can produce extremely strong winds, tornadoes, torrential rain, high waves, and storm surge. They are born and sustained over large bodies of warm water, and lose their strength over land. This is the reason coastal regions can receive significant damage from a tropical cyclone, while inland regions are relatively safe from receiving strong winds. Heavy rains, however, can produce significant flooding inland, and storm surges can produce extensive coastal flooding up to 25 miles/40 km inland. Although their effects on human populations can be devastating, tropical cyclones can also relieve drought conditions. They carry heat away from the tropics, an important mechanism of the global atmospheric circulation that helps maintain equilibrium in the Earth's troposphere.

Answer 5

To my belief cyclones are hurricanes in the far east I think they spin the opposite direction though. And about them being controlled not to my knowledge, just God can do that. I hope.

Answer 6

A cyclone was made by Plymouth. The toranado was Oldsmobile. The hurricane was made by some British company

Answer 7

see website
http://oz.plymouth.edu/~ehoffman/cycloneqs.html

Answer 8

CYCLONE
http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/research/project-net/cyclones/cyclone-01.html
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/tcfaqHED.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane

TORNADO
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/specialreports/tornado/inside/about.html
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/specialreports/tornado/awesome/company.html
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/index.html

HURRICANE
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761565992_1____2/Hurricane.html#s2
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hurr/home.rxml
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/hurricanes/indepth.htm