“…Most notably, there was no mention of the possible existence and role of upper‐tropospheric inflow layers that are found to develop in numerous numerical model simulations of tropical cyclone intensification where the vertical resolution is sufficient (e.g., Rotunno and Emanuel 1987, figure 5c; Hausman et al ., 2006, figures 4b and 8b; Bui et al ., 2009, figure 6a; Persing et al ., 2013, figures 15a, 17a, and 18a; Bu et al ., 2014, figures 4a,b, 9a,b, 12, and 16; Smith et al ., 2014, figure 2c; Ohno and Satoh 2015, figure 2b; Fovell et al ., 2016, figures 11–21; Kieu et al ., 2016, figures 2b and 4; Heng et al ., 2017, figure 4c; Chen et al ., 2018, figure 14a,c; Smith et al ., 2018b, figure 2b,d). Most of these papers relate to the evolution of a tropical‐cyclone‐like vortex in the prototype problem for tropical cyclone intensification, which considers the evolution of a vortex on an f ‐plane in a quiescent environment, starting from an initially symmetric, moist, cloud‐free vortex over a warm ocean.…”