Also new this season is an airborne Doppler radar, which offers «three - dimensional snapshots of the winds to show hurricane specialists what the hurricane structure looks like with height, which tells us something about how it's interacting with the vertical wind shear.» (scientificamerican.com)
For this reason, Florida State University hurricane specialist James Elsner said he finds Emanuel's theory plausible. (chron.com)
On July 31 of that year, MIT hurricane specialist Kerry Emanuel published a paper in the journal Nature suggesting that hurricanes had gotten much stronger over the past three decades, likely prompted by a rise in sea - surface temperatures that, in turn, is directly tied to global warming. (motherjones.com)