Sentences with phrase «between hurricane intensity»

Since no scientists have made a claim of direct cause and effect (see our recent post on potential statistical links between hurricane intensity and tropical warming), any scientific assessment (such as the next IPCC report) will certainly not do so either.

Not exact matches

Dr. Christopher Landsea — past chairman of the American Meteorological Society's Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones — says «there are no known scientific studies that show a conclusive physical link between global warming and observed hurricane frequency and intensity.»

However, for the period prior to 1945, we consider that intensity estimates are too uncertain for definitive analysis, especially for differentiating between hurricane classes.

I've always thought it «obvious» that hurricane intensity would be linked to SSTs due to latent heat energy considerations, and not to differences between SST and upper atmosphere temperature.

In part of course, because they neatly symbolize the two opposing camps in the current debate: contrast for example Emanuel's work demonstrating a linkage between increasing hurricane intensity and global warming with Gray's denial of any such link.

Perhaps more importantly, the paper in no way challenges the Emanuel (2005) study demonstrating a close linkage between warming sea surface temperatures and hurricane intensity for the Atlantic.

it seems that your conclusion:» the observed relationship between increased intensity of TCs and rising ocean temperatures appears to be robust» is in direct contradiction with your conclusion «our knowledge of likely future changes in hurricanes or tropical cyclones (TCs) remains an uncertain area of science».

Since the SST changes are global, and almost certainly tied to greenhouse gas driven global warming, there are the beginnings of a corroborated link between increases in hurricane intensity and GW — however, so far there are only a couple of ducks in a row.

Also, I've read somewhere (sorry no ref) that GW may decrease the temperature differential between the poles and the equatore hence reducing Hurricane intensity.

In doing so, they fail to recognize the important distinction between the operational hurricane forecasting problem (a classical initial value problem) and the boundary value problem addressed in KT04, where one is concerned with the maximum hurricane intensity that is possible for a given set of largescale environmental conditions (i.e., a climatological or statistical distribution of maximum intensities).

The intense rainfall was due to a complicated interplay between the intensity of the hurricane, its path, and the fact that it stalled over the coast with part of it still over the water so the storm dynamics could access the heat and moisture of the Gulf.

While tropical hurricane intensity is primarily driven by latent heat from warm sea surface temperatures, an extra-tropical storm is primarily driven by baroclinic processes (differences in the pressure gradient) such as the gradient due to the contrast between the warm Gulf Stream and cold continental air mass.

He also does a very good job in talking about the relationship between sea surface temperature and hurricane intensity.

One key example has been communication on the scientific question of the relationship between global warming and increased hurricane intensity.

However, other dimensions that still hold higher degrees of scientific uncertainty — such as the linkages between climate change and hurricane intensity, or on matters of political disagreement, such as if cap and trade legislation is an effective solution — remain subjects where journalists justifiably should emphasize a greater diversity of views.

But there is no evidence whatsoever of any positive link between «climate change» and hurricane intensity.

Two new papers have recently been published examining the link between global warming and hurricane intensity.

There are no known scientific studies that show a conclusive physical link between global warming and hurricane frequency and intensity.

Over the past 50 years there has been a strong statistical connection between tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures and Atlantic hurricane activity as measured by the Power Dissipation Index (which combines storm intensity, duration, and frequency).

Held said he hadn't been affected, but he advised calling Thomas Knutson, a NOAA scientist whose research showed a link between climate change and hurricane intensity.

He argued that Knutson's research reflects only a small link between global warming and hurricane intensity.

«What you can do is show an unambiguous link between the increase in hurricane intensity and the warming sea surface temperatures.

The link between heat and Hurricane intensity is unquestionable, as atmospheric water vapour density increases with higher temperatures, the energy source is likewise augmented, same goes for cyclones.

RE # 193 my legal understanding (as a layperson) would be that we can not make a criminal case re the link between CC & hurricane intensity of a specific hurricane, which requires «beyond a resonable doubt» (sort of like a scientific standard of p <.05), but there could be a civil case, which requires a «preponderance of evidence.»

Some scientists still think it's too premature to make any definitive links between sea surface temperatures and hurricane intensity.

That is, the IPCC itself makes no connection between the current warming trend and hurricane intensity.