On the molecular dynamics in the hurricane interactions with its environment

Highlights: • The molecular dynamics underlying the hurricane-environment interaction is studied. • The mechanism of energy storage and dissipation is discussed. • Time-dependent Ginzburg–Landau equation and phase transitions are discussed. • It is shown that hurricane have intrinsic self-similar fractal-like properties. - Abstract: By resorting to the Burgers model for hurricanes, we study the molecular motion involved in the hurricane dynamics. We show that the Lagrangian canonical formalism requires the inclusion of the environment degrees of freedom. This also allows the description of the motion of charged particles. In view of the role played by moist convection, cumulus and cloud water droplets in the hurricane dynamics, we discuss on the basis of symmetry considerations the role played by the molecular electrical dipoles and the formation of topologically non-trivial structures. The mechanism of energy storage and dissipation, the non-stationary time dependent Ginzburg–Landau equation and the vortex equation are studied. Finally, we discuss the fractal self-similarity properties of hurricanes.