Rotation, Convection and Hurricane State Determined by Entropic Forces

It is well-known that the rain field and convective clouds are associated with a number of major threats to safety - from hurricanes, and tornados of different scales. Explanation the creation of rotation using Newtonian (energetic) forces is complicated from a dynamic and computational approach. The purpose of this note is to outline an alternative, made much similar explanation by the use of forces associated with the entropy in the rain field.

The concept of entropic forces was first introduced by Neumann (1980) as an alternative method of considering random mixtures and their associated structures in atomic physics. Such forces have since been applied in formulations of forces in fields as dissimilar as hydrophobics, polymers, astronomy, gravity, dank matter, colloidal mixtures, and biological cell structures (Wikipedia. Entropic Forces). From a meteorological point of view, Holloway (2009) considered their presence in synoptic scale atmospheric dynamics. Wisser-Gross and Free (2013) argued that there was an inter-relationship between entropic forces and ‘artificial’ intelligence. Recently, there has been consideration of entropic forces in clouds, particularly convective clouds (Kerman, 2023). The following note is meant to extend and clarify those computations in applications involving strong convection in hurricanes and tornadoes.