«Severity of North Pacific storms at highest point in over 1,200 years:
Warmer tropical waters impact weather from Alaska to Florida.»
Not exact matches
As
warming oceans and melting glacial ice raise
water levels, flooding from
tropical storms has an increasingly devastating
impact on highly populated coastal areas.
The increase in
water vapour as the surface
warms is key, but so might be changes in boundary layer stability, rossby wave generation via longitudinally varying responses at the surface,
impacts of the stratopshere on the steering of the jet, and the situation is completely different again for
tropical storms.
Di Lorenzo et al. (2010) presents evidence of the unique
impacts of Central Pacific (CPAC) El Niño events (i.e., El Niño episodes when the
warmest waters are located in the central
tropical Pacific) on the Northern Hemisphere atmospheric and oceanic circulation on interannual and decadal time scales.
Because solar heating has declined and (according to the IPCC) added CO2 has little
impact on heating
tropical waters as discussed in part 2, subsurface heat should decline and future ventilations will not cause a resumption in a
warming trend.