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Storms on a low-gravity planet

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For this question, assume that the planet is Earth-like in almost every way, and is in a system like ours...the distance from the sun, orbital period, rotation, axial tilt, etc is all pretty much the same as Earth now - except this planet's radius and mass are reduced such that the gravity on the surface of the planet is half that of our Earth's. That means that the radius of this planet is $\frac12\ a_\oplus$ (1/2 Earth radius). Keeping the ratio of land mass to bodies of water, let's assume that oceans and continents are about 1/4 the size that they are on Earth.

The air density/atmospheric pressure at any given altitude is about 1/2 that of Earth's.

Could storms on this planet be as violent as storms on Earth? What would it be like in a hurricane?

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