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Compare the origin and weather conditions associated with the tropical and temperate cyclones.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Climatology

Tropical and temperate (extratropical) cyclones are both closed low-pressure systems with converging, rising air, but they belong to different families: one is a thermally driven heat engine of the warm oceans, the other a frontal, baroclinic wave of the middle latitudes.

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  • Origin Compared
  • Temperate Cyclones — Frontal and Baroclinic Origin
  • Tropical Cyclones — Thermal (Heat-Engine) Origin
  • Weather Conditions Compared
  • Weather Sequence on Passage
  • Indian and Current Significance

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