Sentences with phrase «cyclones occur»

In the Arctic, cyclones occur year round, but they tend to happen more in certain places depending on the time of year.

We suggest cyclones occur when the «vacuum» formed by multimerization is filled by «sucking» air up from below, rather than sucking from the sides as happens with the jet streams.

Most casualties during tropical cyclones occur as the result of storm surges.

«And the greatest destructive forces of tropical cyclones occurs on coastal zone habitats.»

But all this is talking about the current conditions, the cyclones occurring now.

For example, the latest report from the IPCC says while there could be a decrease or no change in the number of tropical cyclones occurring globally through the 21st century, they are likely to be stronger when they do strike.

There is evidence of a minimum of intense cyclones occurring in the 1970s (11), which could indicate that our observed trend toward more intense cyclones is a reflection of a long - period oscillation.

Recent work (Kossin et al. 2014; see GFDL Research Highlight) indicates that the latitude at which the maximum intensity of tropical cyclones occurs has expanded poleward globally in recent decades, although the causes for this have not been firmly established and a significant change was not seen in the Atlantic basin statistics.

Not exact matches

The cyclone is small in terms of area but has entered a climatic environment in which rapid intensification can occur, meteorologists said.

The storm has continued to grow increasingly powerful in a process called bombogenesis — known to some as a bomb cyclone — which occurs when a system's central air pressure drops 24 millibars in 24 hours.

«Only recently did Cassini give us this huge wealth of observations that made it possible, and only recently have we had to think about why [polar cyclones] occur.»

While the South Atlantic is not immune to tropical cyclones, they occur so infrequently there that scientists barely pay attention.

Shimon Wdowinski, a seismologist at the University of Miami, Florida, says that he has found a strong correlation between extremely wet tropical cyclones striking Taiwan and big earthquakes that occur up to three years later.

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

The number of tropical cyclones was more than the eight that occurred during the 2014 season.

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.

hurricane A tropical cyclone that occurs in the Atlantic Ocean and has winds of 119 kilometers (74 miles) per hour or greater.

In conjunction with the political instability and protests, this cyclone could have not occurred at any worse of times.

Carson, a simple google search will find numerous educational pages about the conditions required for cyclones and why they occur in some places not others but since this is hardly radical knowledge.

The disaster in Myanmar highlights the threats to coastlines wherever tropical cyclones and hurricanes occur — in agricultural and industrial countries alike.

This photo gallery exposes how extremely vulnerable Bangladesh is to natural disasters, with cyclones and flooding occurring regularly.

This occurred during the early part of the cyclone's lifecycle (1800 UTC August 14), in the eastern Kara Sea.

Fourteen of these tornadoes occurred during the 3rd and 4th, as a Gulf Coast cyclone tracked northeastward across the region.

A name of Chinese origin, meaning «great wind» applied to the intense tropical cyclones which occur in the western Pacific Ocean.

SciDev.Net: Natural disasters — particularly tropical cyclones, tornadoes, storm surges and flooding — occur frequently in Bangladesh.

While models suggest that these changes will occur mid to late this century, Haig and colleagues» study suggests the decline in cyclone frequency has already begun.

-- I have listed the «catastrophic results» that are projected to occur, according to IPCC AR4 WG1 SPM, pp. 8 and 13: temperature increase of up to 6.4 °C, heat waves, floods, droughts, increased intense tropical cyclones, extreme high sea level, as well as some of the secondary impacts, which IPCC projects in WG2, WG3: crop failures, disappearing glaciers now supplying drinking water for millions, spread of vector diseases, etc..

The maps are useful for identifying the regions where tropical cyclones are more likely to occur during El Niño years, La Niña years and neutral years.

Tropical cyclone activity and intensity increasing Record droughts, floods, heat waves, cold spells, high tides occurring Unequivocal warming of the climate system observed with very high confidence that human activities are to blame Temperature rising even more dramatically in Arctic, threatening ice loss and extinction of species Halving human CO2 emissions immediately might save the planet from catastrophe.

Rapid extratropical cyclone development, called explosive cyclogenesis, is often associated with major winter storms and occurs when surface pressure falls by more than about 24 millibars per day.

An archive of all of the more than 700 tropical cyclones that have occurred since November 2009 is also available to those who visit the site.

They also captured rapid changes in wind speed that occur around the eye of the cyclone, which did not appear to be affected by any data loss, like what can be caused by heavy precipitation in other satellite data.

For example, science can identify how much monetary loss might occur if tropical cyclones grow more intense or heat waves more frequent, or identify the land that might be lost in coastal communities for various levels of higher seas.

Lightning is often detected in the rainbands, and it occurs episodically in the inner core of tropical cyclones (within 100 kilometers of center).

«For the high emissions scenario, it is likely that the frequency of hot days will increase by a factor of 10 in most regions of the world», said Thomas Stocker the other Co-chair of Working Group I. «Likewise, heavy precipitation will occur more often, and the wind speed of tropical cyclones will increase while their number will likely remain constant or decrease».

Relatively large daily ice losses have continued into early August, though they are less than the extreme losses in early August 2012 that occurred in the wake of a strong cyclone that moved through the area and broke up the ice in the Chukchi Sea.

In El Niño years, tropical cyclones tend to be more intense and longer - lived than in La Niña years (Camargo and Sobel, 2004) and occur in different locations.

Moreover, in our «Physics of the Earth's atmosphere» Paper 2, we suggest that tropical cyclones are formed when the altitude at which «multimerization» occurs changes rapidly — see this essay for an overview.

Having said that, similar changes in tropical cyclone detection also seem to have occurred for each of the other basins, e.g., Hoarau et al., 2012 (Abstract) suggest that incomplete satellite coverage during the 1980s and early 1990s led to an underestimation of cyclone intensity in the northern Indian Ocean basin.

Climatic changes: A tropical monsoon country, Bangladesh is prone to floods, tropical cyclones, and tornadoes, which occur almost every year, and now the low - lying country is suffering increased rainfall, cyclones and rising sea levels.

It also explains why tropical cyclones form, and provides new insights into why high and low pressure weather systems occur

Thus, one with a name which begins with A, like Anne, would be the first tropical cyclone to occur in the year.

Globally, about 90 tropical cyclones, on average, occur every year.

Persistence of waves can not only occur with high pressure, but also e.g. with low pressure systems (potentially leading to flooding) or with persistent zonal flow (supporting the occurrence of extreme cyclones).

Model studies and theory project a 3 - 5 % increase in wind - speed per degree Celsius increase of tropical sea surface temperatures»; and «If the projected rise in sea level due to global warming occurs, then the vulnerability to tropical cyclone storm surge flooding would increase.»

Consider these two «consensus» points that Lomborg completely omits: «It is likely that some increase in tropical cyclone peak wind - speed and rainfall will occur if the climate continues to warm.

These global - scale changes are not necessarily projected to occur in all tropical cyclone basins.

Some weather patterns, such as cyclones or anticyclones, occur in the Arctic as well as other regions.

The mid-latitude cyclones that form as wave like patterns and migrate along the Polar Front, are major storm systems that occur more frequently and can impact much larger areas than any other severe weather system.

Extra-tropical cyclones are baroclinic low pressure systems that occur throughout the mid-latitudes of both hemispheres.