Sentences with phrase «atlantic hurricane formation»
The Lesser Antilles intersect the «main development region» for Atlantic hurricane formation, making storm data there «our best source for historical variability of tropical cyclones in the tropical Atlantic in the past three centuries,» the researchers explain.
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Multi-decadal variability in the North Atlantic also plays a role in Atlantic hurricane formation (Goldenberg et al., 2001; see also Section 3.8.3.2).
Tropical Atlantic (10 ° N — 20 ° N) sea surface temperature annual anomalies (°C) in the region of Atlantic hurricane formation, relative to the 1961 to 1990 mean.
Multi-decadal variability in the North Atlantic also plays a role in Atlantic hurricane formation (Goldenberg et al., 2001; see also Section 3.8.3.2).
Not exact matches
«NASA sees formation of unusual North Atlantic Hurricane Alex.» ScienceDaily.
El Niño is a key factor in making hurricane seasonal forecasts because the changes in atmospheric patterns over the tropical Pacific that it ushers in have a domino effect on patterns over the Atlantic, tending to suppress hurricane formation.
El Niño conditions can also curb the formation of powerful storms, and with no El Niño in the picture in 2017 — and with warmer - than - average ocean waters — last year's Atlantic hurricane season was unusually active.
Conditions in the tropical Atlantic remain unfavorable for hurricane formation.»
That doesn't mean more hurricanes everywhere, though: While El Niño tends to boost activity in the Pacific Ocean, it clamps down on storm formation in the tropical Atlantic.
For years, perhaps decades, Gray has been ascribing all sorts of climate changes and hurricane cycles to fluctuations in the Thermohaline Circulation (THC), an overturning circulation in the Atlantic ocean associated with formation of deep water in the North Atlantic.
Possibly, this forming El Nino also had an impact on formation of tropical storm systems in the Western Atlantic this past hurricane season.
Anyone here know of an explanation for the formation of hurricanes such as I give in Chapter 4A for eg 2017 & 2010 North Atlantic Hurricanes?
Records from the 20th Century suggest that hurricane formation over the Atlantic has changed phase every few decades: the 1940s and 50s were active, the 70s and 80s less so, while the currently active phase appears to have commenced in 1995.
When El Niño appears, it tends to suppress hurricane formation in the Atlantic basin.
Would another consequence of the AMOC collapse be the formation of an Atlantic tropical warm pool comparable with that in the western Pacific that is the source of the world's highest hurricane frequency?