Sentences with phrase «as hurricane research»

GFDL scientists focus on model - building relevant for society, such as hurricane research, weather and ocean prediction, seasonal forecasting, and understanding global and regional climate change.

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BOEM initiated the idea for the geological and geophysical research, known as the Atlantic Sand Assessment Project (ASAP), following Hurricane Sandy in order to identify and assess new potential sand resources which might be needed in the future.

Their research, published yesterday in Nature Communications, helped identify why 2011's Hurricane Irene and 10 other summer hurricanes in the Mid-Atlantic failed to intensify as predicted.

The results of this research could «impact our understanding of wind - based damage, such as the destruction by the recent Hurricane Irene,» he says, which toppled trees across a large swath of the northeastern United States in September.

As Hurricane Sandy battered the US eastern seaboard that night, the many universities, labs and research stations in its path would feel the effects of power outages, damaging winds and flooding.

But recent research, he adds, shows that the largest hurricanes — with the fastest winds — could become even more powerful CO2 - spawning dynamos as the planet heats up.

Sandy hit New York as a team led by Kemp was researching sea - level change and flooding that had occurred in seven historically damaging hurricanes in New York since 1788.

«As hurricane Harvey approached the U.S., hurricane hunters flew directly into the storm and dropped sensors to measure wind speed,» said Xiankang Dou, leader of the research team at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).

Hurricane Harvey's record rainfall was three times more likely than a storm from the early 1900s and 15 percent more intense as a result of climate change, a new study in Environmental Research Letters found.

Climate change made Hurricane Harvey more powerful and increased its deadly flooding, according to new research released as major storms may be driving more Americans to worry about global warming.

That's equivalent to a category 77 hurricane,» says Jesse Rogerson, who led the research as part of his PhD thesis in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at York U. «And we have reason to believe that there are quasar winds that are even faster.»

Recent research suggests that an AMO warm phase has been in effect since the mid-1990s, which has caused changes in rainfall in the southeastern US, and resulted in twice as many tropical storms becoming hurricanes than during cool phases.

From the earliest days of Hurricane Maria, a Category 5 storm that made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 20, the analysts and staff of PRSN were assessing damage to the network and serving as a vital link in the island's emergency communications, said Elizabeth Vanacore, a PRSN assistant research professor.

«There's a lot of research on how different kinds of environmental disasters — such as forest fires, hurricanes, air pollution, or heat waves — impact human health, but the most widespread natural disaster is drought,» said lead author Jesse Berman, a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale FE&S, in a press release.

Tulane prides itself on being be the first research university to integrate public service into the core curriculum (in 2006, as part of the school's Renewal Plan following the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina).

So Cassandra did some research to find out what kinds of items — such as flashlights, baby supplies, etc. — would be most needed in hurricane - torn communities and organized a supply drive at her school, Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy.

1998 - 2006 Between 2004 and 2006, Andrews researches his Migrant Series, traveling the routes of the Dust Bowl migration, the Cherokee forced - march known as the Trail of Tears, and those displaced in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina.

A recent paper by Vecchi and Soden (preprint) published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters has been widely touted in the news (and some egregiously bad editorials), and the blogosphere as suggesting that increased vertical wind shear associated with tropical circulation changes may offset any tendencies for increased hurricane activity in the tropical Atlantic due to warming oceans.

Personally, I am all for scientific discourse, but not one that uses very subjective data (as clearly pointed out in the re-analysis of data at the NOAA Hurricane Research Center) as strength of the argument.

Conversely, due to well - researched upper - atmospheric flow (e.g. vertical shear) configurations favorable to Atlantic hurricane development and intensification, La Nina falls tend to favor very active seasons in the Atlantic (El Nino years are the converse, with must less activity, as forecast by Gray and NOAA for 2009).

First, modification of individual hurricanes would fall under the topic of weather modification, rather than climate geoengineering; and second, there is not nearly as much research on [hurricane modification] as on the possible effects of climate geoengineering on slowing the melting of ice sheets.

The hurricane students therefore can not judge climateaudit on its proxy research, this is simply the wrong group of GT students, were merely passing judgement on the hurricane threads and the blogospheric process in general (as opposed to the more traditional venues of university seminars, the peer reviewed literature, conferences, etc).

While early research efforts were abandoned, the possibility of hurricane modification has reemerged as the climate engineering research field grows.

As one particularly vivid example, when renowned hurricane expert Dr. Bill Grey refused to go along with then VP Al Gore's global warming nonsense at a Gore hosted climate science conference, he lost all further federal funding for his world class hurricane research.

Answers vary, but previous research has pointed the finger at changing storm tracks, particularly for tropical cyclones such as hurricanes and typhoons.

(I) the past research completed related to hurricane and typhoon development, track, and intensity as reviewed by Working Groups I and II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;

More research is needed to better understand the extent to which other factors, such as atmospheric stability and circulation, affect hurricane development.

This study differs from earlier research into possible links between hurricanes and warmer sea surface temperatures by looking as well at the effect of warmer air.

Report identifies rising risks posed by hurricanes as planet warms By Nicky Sundt CSPW Senior Fellow The Climate Change Special Report, arguably the most important report produced by the interagency U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) under the Trump Administration,... Continue reading →

As Greg Holland of the National Center for Atmospheric Research explained, «If you take the last 10 years, we've had twice the number of category - 5 hurricanes than any other [10 - year period] on record.»

But up the road at Colorado State University, the famed hurricane season forecaster William Gray in 1998 - 9 descried the impact of the ACW research funding - fetish as crowding out his arguably more important — and socially and economically more valuable — research.

The research version of this computer model, known by the acronym HWRF (pronounced «H WARF»), picks up on storm features that other models typically miss altogether, such as the evolution of the rain bands that pinwheel around a tropical storm or hurricane.

[1] Research findings published in the science journal Nature in August suggest increased sea surface temperatures as a consequence of global warming, will lead to more intense hurricanes.

While NOAA relies on the Air Force Reserve's «Hurricane Hunters» unit for the vast majority of hurricane reconnaissance work, NOAA's own aging fleet of hurricane research aircraft also fly into and around the fierce storms with specialized instruments, such as airborne DopplHurricane Hunters» unit for the vast majority of hurricane reconnaissance work, NOAA's own aging fleet of hurricane research aircraft also fly into and around the fierce storms with specialized instruments, such as airborne Dopplhurricane reconnaissance work, NOAA's own aging fleet of hurricane research aircraft also fly into and around the fierce storms with specialized instruments, such as airborne Dopplhurricane research aircraft also fly into and around the fierce storms with specialized instruments, such as airborne Doppler radar.

The Hurricane Research Division produced surface wind analysis of tropical cyclones from 1993 - 2013 as part of the H * Wind Project.

The GFDL hurricane prediction system originated as a research model in the 1970s.

The study is an extension of earlier research by Professor Jacobson at Stanford: he has presented a master plan for renewable energy for all 50 US states, and along with other researchers presented detailed arguments for the most efficient use of wind power, and even proposed that as a bonus wind turbines could sap the ferocity of hurricanes.

Statistical analysis of the record revealed «the hurricane number is actually decreasing in time,» which finding is quite stunning... as the Mexican research team indicates, «when analyzing the entire time series built for this study, i.e., from 1749 to 2012, the linear trend in the number of hurricanes is decreasing».»

Unfortunately, despite this clear empirical evidence, the climate change and global warming doomsday alarmists attempt to portray the 2017 season as a sign of CO2 - induced climate catastrophe - and that is not being well accepted by the actual hurricane experts (here, here, here) who have been on the front lines of tropical cyclone activity and impact research.

* hope that the scientists forecasting low temperature rise are correct, * start mitigation programs (much of which are necessary anyway, such as preparation of the US East coast for rising sea levels (necessary anyway to prepare for normal hurricane impacts) * crash fund climate research — rather than the underfunded, uncoordinated work done today — to better predict and prepare, * crash fund energy research, * push use of alternatives (I don't expect much from this), * take steps to crash the global economy — the alarmists recommendation, which I reject.

His research has found that the lack of an El Niño event increases the likelihood of a hurricane strike, as does a climate pattern known as the North Atlantic Oscillation, or NAO.

Research shows that hurricanes and typhoons are likely to become more intense with stronger winds as the planet, including ocean temperatures, continues to warm.

Frank Marks, head of NOAA's Hurricane Research Division (HRD), who flew into Andrew to assess its strength as it approached Florida, agreed that as track forecasts improve, intensity and structure have to become the focus of rResearch Division (HRD), who flew into Andrew to assess its strength as it approached Florida, agreed that as track forecasts improve, intensity and structure have to become the focus of researchresearch.

For example, new research estimates that as the Earth has warmed, the probability of a storm with precipitation levels like Hurricane Harvey was higher in Texas in 2017 than it was at the end of the twentieth century.

Volunteers For Careers ™ was spearheaded by the Professional Resume Writing and Research Association (now Career Directors International) in a collaborative effort with all other career professionals throughout the world to assist those affected by the tragedies of September 11, 2001 as well as Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

«While it's too early for our LIRA model to capture the effects of recent hurricanes and other natural disasters experienced around the country, there is certainly potential for even stronger growth in remodeling next year as major reconstruction and repairs get underway in affected regions,» said Abbe Will, research associate in the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies.