Sentences with phrase «current hurricane numbers»
Not exact matches
The current Landsea / Trenberth / Emanuel discussion has been parsed by many to mean that Landsea claims that the number of hurricanes is constant, and Trenberth is claiming that their intensity should increase as global warming heats the ocean surface.
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The study looked at historical hurricane activity across the entire tropical Atlantic basin to see if the current peak in storm numbers is... Read more
The study looked at historical hurricane activity across the entire tropical Atlantic basin to see if the current peak in storm numbers is anomalous.
The current Landsea / Trenberth / Emanuel discussion has been parsed by many to mean that Landsea claims that the number of hurricanes is constant, and Trenberth is claiming that their intensity should increase as global warming heats the ocean surface and these claims can both be true.
In other words, there is little evidence from current dynamical models that 21st century climate warming will lead to large (~ 300 %) increases in tropical storm numbers, hurricane numbers, or PDI in the Atlantic.
In this article, I will review our current understanding of Atlantic TC and hurricane trends with respect to: A) the historical record of basin - wide TC numbers; B) the historical record of hurricanes and TC intensity; C) distant past proxy estimates of TC (primarily, hurricane only) counts; and D) distant past proxy measures of TC / hurricane intensity.