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SERIES A DY NAMIC METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY P U B L I S H E D B Y T H E I N T E R N A T I O N A L M E T E O R O L O G I C A L I N S T I T U T E I N S T O C K H O L M Tellus (2008), 60A, 688–699 C 2008 University of Michigan Journal compilation C 2008 Blackwell Munksgaard Printed in Singapore. All rights reserved T E L L U S A thermodynamically general theory for convective vortices By NILTON O. RENNO ∗, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK and Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA (Manuscript received 8 June 2007; in final form 17 March 2008) ABSTR ACT Convective vortices are common features of atmospheres that abso