Sentences with phrase «cyclone record»

«Different methods for estimating undercounts in the earlier part of the North Atlantic tropical cyclone record provide mixed conclusions»

Here we show that in addition to other well - known climate indices, solar forcing largely drives decadal, interdecadal, and centennial cycles within the tropical cyclone record.»

The uncertainties in the historical tropical cyclone records, the incomplete understanding of the physical mechanisms linking tropical cyclone metrics to climate change, and the degree of tropical cyclone variability provide only low confidence for the attribution of any detectable changes in tropical cyclone activity to anthropogenic influences.

It adds this substantial cautionary note, however: that «multi-decadal variability and the quality of the tropical cyclone records prior to routine satellite observations in about 1970 complicate the detection of long - term trends in tropical cyclone activity.»

Multi-decadal variability and the quality of the tropical cyclone records prior to routine satellite observations in about 1970 complicate the detection of long - term trends in tropical cyclone activity.

«In the North Atlantic region, where tropical cyclone records are longer and generally of better quality than elsewhere, power dissipation by tropical cyclones is highly correlated with sea surface temperature during hurricane season in the regions where storms typically develop»

Long story short, there was little justification for this when examining long term cyclone records.

The analysis provides «one seamless index which combines both instrumental and prehistorical tropical cyclone records», according to Haig.

By carefully analysing historical documents, it may be possible to extend our limited tropical cyclone records back in time.

The gusty cartography plots the paths all the tropical cyclones recorded in the past 170 years.

Not exact matches

Since then it's taken the first - ever photos of Jupiter's poles, discovered atmospheric «rivers» of ammonia, watched 870 - mile - wide cyclones swirl, recorded mysterious auroras, and probed deep into the planet's thick cloud tops for evidence of a solid core, among other feats.

The previous record for the lower 48 states was established in 1978 by cyclone Amelia, in Medina, Texas, according to the NWS Houston Twitter account.

Since then, it has taken the first - ever photos of Jupiter's poles, discovered atmospheric «rivers» of ammonia, watched 870 - mile - wide cyclones swirl, recorded mysterious auroras, and probed deep into the planet's thick cloud tops for evidence of a solid core, among other feats.

According to data from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and National Weather Service, Hurricane Harvey was the wettest cyclone in U.S. history with a recorded 60.58 inches of rainfall in Nederland, Texas.

Though the Cyclones were without their third leading scorer, Georges Niang, Kane had his best game of the season, recording a near triple double (24 points, 10 boards, 7 assists).

The Iowa State wide receiver has been climbing up draft boards thanks to a record - setting four - year career with the Cyclones and a better - than - expected showing at this year's NFL Combine.

But the Cyclones haven't beaten a conference foe that finished with a winning record since since October 2012, and they haven't beaten a conference foe, period, since last year.

Tropical cyclone Gonu in 2007 was the most powerful ever recorded in the Arabian Sea.

Two U.N. reports this month said greenhouse gases had reached record levels in the atmosphere and a warming world would likely bring more floods, stronger cyclones and more intense droughts.

Hurricane Rita is the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the most intense tropical cyclone observed in the Gulf of Mexico.

It is the strongest storm of the 2005 - 06 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season thus far, and one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere.

Previous surveys by Cassini have found that winds whip through the atmosphere over Saturn's north pole at more than 500 kilometers per hour — 30 percent faster than any gust ever recorded in a cyclone on Earth.

The research is timely given the extreme winter of 2017 - 2018, including record warm Arctic and low sea ice, record - breaking polar vortex disruption, record - breaking cold and disruptive snowfalls in the United States and Europe, severe «bomb cyclones» and costly nor'easter s, said Judah Cohen, director of seasonal forecasting at AER and lead author of the study.

The article, «Extreme rainfall activity in the Australian tropics reflects changes in the El Niño / Southern Oscillation over the last two millennia,» presents a precisely dated stalagmite record of cave flooding events that are tied to tropical cyclones, which include storms such as hurricanes and typhoons.

Thus, the researchers interpreted the flood layers in their stalagmites largely as recording tropical cyclone activity.

[James P. Kossin, Kerry A. Emanuel and Gabriel A. Vecchi, The poleward migration of the location of tropical cyclone maximum intensity] Researchers looked at the global record of tropical cyclones since the 1970s.

The record reveals that peak cyclone location has been shifting toward both poles at a rate of about 35 miles per decade, roughly one - half a degree of latitude.

In January, Australia had it all: drought, fires, tropical cyclones, tornadoes, floods, and record - breaking heat.

For example, when Typhoon Haiyan — one of the strongest cyclones on record — devastated the central Philippine city of Tacloban in 2013, survivors were stranded for weeks in hard - to - reach areas.

The world's strongest recorded typhoon, cyclone or hurricane to make landfall was Hurricane Camille in 1969, which hit the southern U.S. state of Mississippi with 305 kph (190 mph) winds, said Weather Underground's Masters.

This makes Haiyan the strongest tropical cyclone on record to make landfall,» said Jeff Masters, director of meteorology at U.S. - based Weather Underground.

With winds over a punishing 300 kilometers per hour, Typhoon Haiyan, which ravaged the Philippines in early November, was the most powerful recorded cyclone that made landfall.

Moreover, the first recorded tropical cyclone in the South Atlantic occurred in March 2004 off the coast of Brazil.

Hurricane Wilma — which at one point was the strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic basin — was the last major hurricane to pummel the U.S., roaring ashore in Florida as a Category 3 storm on Oct. 24, 2005.

The Central Pacific also saw an above - average tropical cyclone season, with 14 named storms, eight hurricanes, and five major hurricanes, the most active season since reliable record - keeping began in 1971.

In Hawaii, heavy rain associated with the remnants of three tropical cyclones, Hilda, Kilo, and Ignacio, resulted in Honolulu receiving 7.63 inches of rain during August, more than twice the previous record that occurred in 2004.

After several weeks of hurricanes setting records left and right, the ocean basins of the world have gone quiet: There are no tropical cyclones anywhere around the globe right now.

When explaining the importance of this work, Wehner believes that the big impact lies in assessing the impact of climate change as exemplified by the recent painful experiences of hurricanes Harvey (tied with hurricane Katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record), Irma (the strongest storm on record to exist in the open Atlantic region), and Maria (regarded as the worst natural disaster on record in Dominica and Puerto Rico).

Yet the 2007 record was obliterated, and apparently still would have been without the cyclone.

Harvey is the wettest tropical cyclone on record in the United States.

In 2014 Hurricane Odile rewrote the record books, having become the most powerful tropical cyclone to ever make landfall on the Baja California peninsula.

Cyclone Center's primary goal is to resolve discrepancies in the recent global TC record arising principally from inconsistent development of tropical cyclone intensity data.

This leaves tropical cyclone forecasters, who are ultimately responsible for recording TC tracks and intensities (i.e. maximum wind speeds), with a challenging problem.

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

They add that this slow pace currently makes the trend undetectable due to inadequate long - term records and the considerable variance in cyclone activity from season to season.

We can begin by looking at the record of tropical cyclones in that region.

Now if only we could better measure tropical cyclones to record how they may change in coming years.

Perhaps the best existing analysis of South Pacific tropical cyclones is that of Kossin et al. (2013), who homogenized the satellite data record from 1982 to 2009 to create a temporally consistent record, and compared that to the problematic historical data base of storms over the world.

Deadliest storms mostly in Bengal Storms in the Bay of Bengal account for seven of the 10 deadliest hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones in recorded history, as documented by Weather Underground.

These events included historic droughts in East Africa, the southern United States and northern Mexico; an above - average tropical cyclone season in the North Atlantic hurricane basin and a below - average season in the eastern North Pacific; and the wettest two - year period (2010 — 2011) on record in Australia.