Sentences with phrase «cyclones over»

Ho added that the enhanced intensification of tropical cyclones over East Asian coastal seas caused by changes in sea surface temperature and wind flows mean that «an individual tropical cyclone could strike East Asia, including the Philippines, with a record - breaking power, for example Haiyan, even though landfall intensity in south - east Asia has not notably changed on average in recent years because of the shifted genesis location; note that Haiyan formed over the eastern Philippine Sea far from land.»

2011 - 2012 NASA, The Brown Ocean Concept: A spatio - temporal and theoretical analysis of re-intensifying tropical cyclones over land.

Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are narrow bands of enhanced water vapor associated with the warm sector of extratropical cyclones over the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years (162k PDF) Aug. 2005 Kerry Emanuel (in Nature)

Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 [thinsp] years: Abstract: Nature The US hasn't had a major hurricane for almost twelve years, the longest such... Continue reading →

We're in the middle of a very active period for tropical cyclones over the north Indian ocean.

Deccan Herald: A team of US and Korean scientists blame high levels of air pollution in South Asia for a sharp rise in the intensity of tropical cyclones over the Arabian Sea during and before the monsoon, writes Kalyan Ray.

Kerry Emanuel, «Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years,» Nature, vol.

Kerry Emanuel (2005), Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years, Nature, online publication; published online 31 July 2005 doi: 10.1038 / nature03906

As to underlying causes, neither the frequency of tropical or extratropical cyclones over the North Atlantic are projected to appreciably change due to climate change, nor have there been indications of a change in their statistical behavior over this region in recent decades (see IPCC 2012 SREX report).

Emanuel, K. (2005), Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years, Nature, online publication; published online 31 July 2005 doi: 10.1038 / nature03906 Goldenberg, S.B., C.W. Landsea, A.M. Mestas - Nuñez, and W.M. Gray.

These features can be responsible for the increased frequency of tropical cyclones over the North Atlantic Ocean.»

Furthermore, a new analysis published in Nature by Kerry Emanuel («Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years») points to a high correlation between the power of the TCs and the sea surface temperature (SST).

Emanuel, K. (2005), Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years, Nature, online publication; published online 31 July 2005 doi: 10.1038 / nature03906

Not exact matches

The bone - chilling winter weather that has taken over vast swaths of America's East Coast — and is expected to intensify later this week as a «bomb cyclone» descends on the Northeastern U.S. — has already led to at least 11 known deaths, CNN reports.

The cyclone is expected to lose much of its punch over land but meteorologists warned it could reform again if it reaches the warm waters of the Gulf of Carpentaria, 250 km (155 miles) from the coast.

Juno found cyclones as big as 870 miles (1,400 km) in diameter swirling over Jupiter's north and south poles, shows the research published in this week's issue of the journal Science.

Tropical cyclones — which are called typhoons, cyclones, or hurricanes depending on where you are — form in tropical regions the world over.

Good thing bananas are coming down in price over here — a cyclone earlier in the year wiped out all the crops, so bananas were about $ 16 / kg at one stage (like $ 2 - 3 PER banana arrrrrrrrrrrgh!)

The Cyclones» 33 - 31 victory over the host Sooners in 1990 played out in startlingly similar fashion: a ranked OU went up 14 - 0 in the first quarter against an ISU team dealing with a quarterback injury, then threw it into cruise too early.

ISU isn't the most consistent team in the country, but the Cyclones have looked like one of the best teams in the nation since the beginning of March, with two wins over Oklahoma and one each over Kansas and Texas.

The Mountaineers now find themselves among the No. 4 seeds alongside the Pac -12-leading Arizona Wildcats, a Tennessee Volunteers squad whose Challenge win over the Iowa State Cyclones didn't provide much of a profile boost, and the Texas Tech Red Raiders, picked up a nice non-conference road win over the South Carolina Gamecocks.

Further, Tesla, Elon Musk's OTHER huge corporate gravy train welfare cyclone of pretend tech «success» hasn't earned a single DIME in over ten years it's been around but as long as the taxpayers foot your «success» it; s all good right?

The researchers also cite previous research showing that over the past 30 years, the location where tropical cyclones reach their maximum intensity has shifted away from the equator and toward the poles.

The greening of Sahara strengthens the West African Monsoon, which triggers a change in the atmospheric circulation over the entire tropics, affecting tropical cyclone activity.

Extreme events like cyclones often pushed communities that were otherwise coping over the edge.

Looking at data from 1855 through 2005, Webster and Holland found that the total number of tropical cyclones per year doubled in that time, from an average of six at the beginning of last century to 14 over the past decade.

Over the past three decades, the incidence of cyclones in the tropics has actually diminished — because while tropical cyclones may become more intense in a warmer climate, it is actually more difficult to generate them.

The results of the study, published today in the journal Nature, show that over the last 30 years, tropical cyclones — also known as hurricanes or typhoons — are moving poleward at a rate of about 33 miles per decade in the Northern Hemisphere and 38 miles per decade in the Southern Hemisphere.

Nowadays, there is a raging debate over whether climate change, and the overall rise in global temperature it is supposed to bring, will cause tropical cyclones to develop more often and become more powerful in the future.

Tracking changes in Arctic cyclone activity through time, Vavrus calculated a statistically significant, though minor, increase in extreme Arctic cyclone frequency over the study period, with increases strongest near the Aleutian Islands and Iceland.

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.

In a paper published today in the journal Nature Geoscience, atmospheric scientists at MIT propose a possible mechanism for Saturn's polar cyclones: Over time, small, short - lived thunderstorms across the planet may build up angular momentum, or spin, within the atmosphere — ultimately stirring up a massive and long - lasting vortex at the poles.

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.

«This mechanism means that little thunderstorms — fast, abundant, but not very strong thunderstorms — over a long period of time can actually accumulate so much angular momentum right on the pole, that you get a permanent, wildly strong cyclone.»

The resulting data tell scientists about more than just the frequencies of tropical cyclones in one part of Australia over the past 2,200 years.

«Our study is important because tropical cyclone intensity forecasts for several past hurricanes over the Caribbean Sea have under - predicted rapid intensification events over warm oceanic features,» said Johna Rudzin, a PhD student at the UM Rosenstiel School and lead author of the study.

Such warming provides stronger fuel for the furious storms called tropical cyclones that form over open waters (known in the Atlantic as hurricanes).

«The USGS stream gauges, located east of the Rocky Mountains, showed that tropical cyclones can cause major flooding over the Midwest, including the southeastern corner of Iowa,» he says.

The cloud cover and wind from a cyclone that passed over this section of the reef in March may have brought down temperatures there, Baird says.

In April 1991, a single cyclone, the worst in recent decades, wiped out well over 100,000 lives in the delta and left millions of people homeless.

Extreme weather like droughts and large tropical cyclones would become more common, fragile ecosystems like coral reefs would be at risk of destruction and polar ice melting would swamp many coastal cities over the next century.

But another study by researchers in the United States and Taiwan found a similar association between slow earthquakes — which take places over hours or even days — and tropical cyclones in Taiwan.

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.

Like a compact series of cogs in an unimaginably large machine, vast cyclones also swirl around the north and south poles, clocking wind speeds of over 220 miles per hour (350 kilometers per hour)-- wind speeds that are the equivalent of a terrestrial Category 5 hurricane.

Here's another finding, courtesy of Juno: Unlike Saturn's enigmatic hexagonal (six - sided polygon) cloud structure over the ringed gas giant's north pole, Jupiter's northern cyclones form an octagonal (eight - sided) grouping.

Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Atlanta Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory found that the intensity of post-monsoon tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal has increased over the 30 - year period from 1981 - 2010.

Hurricanes and tropical cyclones become up to 50 percent more intense when passing over oceans inundated with fresh water

According to the latest IPCC report, «tropical cyclone frequency is likely to decrease or remain unchanged over the 21st century, while intensity (i.e. maximum wind speed and rainfall rates) is likely to increase.»

Carrasco, J.F., D.H. Bromwich, and Z. Liu, 1997: Mesoscale cyclone activity over Antarctica during 1991, Part 1: Marie Byrd Land.