So climatologist James Elsner of Florida State University in Tallahassee and his colleagues looked for ties
between hurricane tracks and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), a seesaw shift in atmospheric pressures over the ocean (Science, 12 February 1999, p. 948).
Not exact matches
«We used information about historical
hurricane tracks for the Eastern United States to identify the connection
between the affected population, average per capital income and associated damages.,» Katja Frieler adds.
«The evidence seems strong» for a link
between the NAO and preferred
hurricane tracks, says climatologist Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.
TS Karl is hitting north of us and the wunderground
tracking map shows it alternating
between a tropical storm — tropical depression and category 1
hurricane.
Using a stochastic model of storm motion derived from historic
tracks, this paper explores the relationship
between lead time and
track uncertainty for Atlantic
hurricanes and the implications of this relationship for evacuation decisions.