Niyogi D.Subramanian S.Osuri K.K.2025-02-1720161http://dx.doi.org/10.5822/978-94-024-0896-6_8https://idr.iitbbs.ac.in/handle/2008/1179The role of land surface processes in land falling tropical cyclones is an area of emerging interest. Tropical cyclones are formed as organized convection over warm water (typically 26.5 �C, Gray, 1968) packing tremendous amounts of energy. Tropical cyclones have a typical size of 200-2000 km with a life span of about one to two weeks. The cyclone and its environment are interlinked. There are a number of environmental factors that are important for sustaining and intensifying a tropical cyclone including low humidity, cooler sea surface temperature (SST), or higher tropopause temperatures, dry air intrusion from land masses, and large vertical wind shear (Gray, 1968; McBride and Zehr, 1981). However a number of environmental conditions can change the evolution of a landfalling storm. � 2016 Capital Publishing Company.enBook Chapter