Sentences with phrase «for hurricane research»

«But funding for hurricane research is about one - tenth of the money spent on earthquake research.»

NOAA would receive a total of $ 120.9 million for hurricane research efforts including mapping and charting, and hurricane intensity and flood forecasting.

Not exact matches

The National Center for Atmospheric Research has a hurricane severity scale that factors in wind speed, hurricane size, and forward speed (whether it stalls or not) to rate the potential destructiveness of a storm 1 - to - 10 scale.

While it's hard to say if the punishing number and intensity of storms were due to climate change, climate scientists have now determined — in two separate research efforts — that Hurricane Harvey's record - blasting rains (best measured in feet for much of Houston) were likely amplified by climate change.

BOEM initiated the idea for the geological and geophysical research, known as the Atlantic Sand Assessment Project (ASAP), following Hurricane Sandy in order to identify and assess new potential sand resources which might be needed in the future.

«George Amedore has always been a leader, whether it's fighting for breast cancer research, using his own time and money to help rebuild the local Ronald McDonald House for sick children, or helping victims of Hurricane Irene, George Amedore fights for us.

The Department of Agriculture would receive $ 22 million for its Agricultural Research Service facilities affected by the hurricanes.

NOAA would receive an additional $ 50 million for research weather supercomputing infrastructure and for improvement of satellite ground services used in hurricane intensity and track prediction.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science has made a $ 10,000 donation to the AAAS Caribbean Division to help the Puerto Rican scientific research enterprise respond to extensive rebuilding challenges left by the destructive force of Hurricane Maria, encouraging others to also support efforts.

The study, published by Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, looked at summary displays and ensemble displays for communicating information about a hurricane.

The recent hurricanes presented a rare opportunity for Lasker and Edmunds to study how corals recover from disasters — an important line of research in a warming world where rising ocean temperatures are stressing reefs.

Álvaro Corral of the Centre for Mathematical Research in Barcelona, Spain, and colleagues looked at records of hurricanes from four ocean basins around the world between 1966 and 2007.

A team led by biogeochemist Nicholas Bates of the Bermuda Biological Station for Research in Ferry Reach measured the effects of Hurricane Felix, which swept over two long - term ocean sampling stations near Bermuda in August 1995.

Researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) now analyzed the magnitude of future hurricane losses in relation to economic growth.

«Even if we take the extreme of these error estimates, we are left with a significant trend since 1890 and a significant trend in major hurricanes starting anytime before 1920,» say atmospheric scientists Greg Holland of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., and Peter Webster of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

But Hurricane Harvey is unlike any past test of the gulf's resilience, and researchers are jump - starting studies to document the aftermath, building on baseline data from existing research projects, some of which have been underway for decades.

The Trump administration would pay for hurricane relief in part by cutting conservation and research at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)-- an idea that's running into a roadblock from advocates for those programs.

While hurricanes are a constant source of worry for residents of the southeastern United States, new research suggests that they have a major upside — counteracting global warming.

«High resolution gives us the ability to look at intense weather, like hurricanes,» said Kevin Reed, a researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and a co-author on the paper.

New research from The Ohio State University illuminates the tiny particles responsible for ivy's ability to latch on so tight to trees and buildings that it can withstand hurricanes and tornadoes.

Back in 2006, after the devastation following Hurricane Katrina the National Science Board called for an increase of $ 300 million in hurricane research funding Hurricane Katrina the National Science Board called for an increase of $ 300 million in hurricane research funding hurricane research funding per year.

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Notes for Journalists Study authors Michael Wehner and Karin van der Wiel will present this research in a two - part press conference on hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria at the AGU Fall Meeting on Wednesday, 13 December 2017 starting at 2:30 p.m. CST.

A&M - Corpus Christi Scientists Receive Grants for Research Equipment lost During Hurricane Harvey

In addition to the rise in major hurricanes in the Atlantic basin, the average number of named hurricanes each year has increased to about seven storms from five storms, though the exact reasons for this rise are still the subject of research.

He pointed to hurricanes, an icon for Mr. Gore, who highlights the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and cites research suggesting that global warming will cause both storm frequency and deadliness to rise.

Other affiliations have included Chair of The Jackson Laboratory (genetics research), a board member of Maine Medical Center and Hurricane Island Outward Bound, a member of the Executive Committee of the US - Israel Science and Technology Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, Explorer's Club, ServiceNation, the selection committee for America's Best Leaders (US News and World Report), YPO, WPO, CEO and others.

The hurricane season of 2017 has been one for the record books with three major hurricanes making landfall on U.S. states and territories within a four - week period leaving devastating impacts that the research community is just beginning to understand.

Part of the difficulty is «miserable» global historical hurricane records, says Prof Kevin Trenberth from the US National Center for Atmospheric Research.

The first phase of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research's needs assessment work on behalf of the Greater Houston Community Foundation and the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund.

«CDF documents liberate me from the confines of static depictions of models when creating interactive presentations of my hurricane insurance research for legislators and other public policymakers,» said Seth J. Chandler, Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center.

Gallagher and Hartley's research shows a significant drop in total debt balance for many New Orleans residents following Hurricane Katrina, defying researchers» expectations.

Rogue Stormers Rocks You Like a Hurricane It was brought to my attention while researching Rogue Stormers that it's been through a lot of development trouble for years.

A recent paper by Vecchi and Soden (preprint) published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters has been widely touted in the news (and some egregiously bad editorials), and the blogosphere as suggesting that increased vertical wind shear associated with tropical circulation changes may offset any tendencies for increased hurricane activity in the tropical Atlantic due to warming oceans.

«Research by NOAA scientists Gerry Bell and Muthuvel Chelliah, currently in press with the Journal of Climate, describes the tropical multi-decadal signal and shows that it accounts for the entire inter-related set of conditions that controls hurricane activity for decades at a time.

The Bates et al research (Nature) on Hurricane Felix indicates that it takes about 2 weeks for the oceans to «recharge» after a storm.

Personally, I am all for scientific discourse, but not one that uses very subjective data (as clearly pointed out in the re-analysis of data at the NOAA Hurricane Research Center) as strength of the argument.

The problem of differentiating the signal of intensity from the noise of frequency remains, and I for one can not think of a research question that could draw from this data an answer to the «Is AGW causing increases in hurricane losses?»

On a related front, Judith Curry, the Georgia Tech climate researcher who, after being immersed in the «hurricane and climate wars,» has become a campaigner for embracing criticism in climate research, has offered up a new manifesto for fellow researchers.

Indeed, in the case of Hurricane Sandy, any role for greenhouse gases was a background influence, even according to Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, who's been one of the most vocal scientists using extreme weather to make a case for emissions action.

Conversely, due to well - researched upper - atmospheric flow (e.g. vertical shear) configurations favorable to Atlantic hurricane development and intensification, La Nina falls tend to favor very active seasons in the Atlantic (El Nino years are the converse, with must less activity, as forecast by Gray and NOAA for 2009).

Although he believes the Earth is warming and is concerned about its affects, particularly sea level rise, he attributes increased hurricane activity in the Atlantic to natural cycles that he said paleo - oceanographic research has shown have been going on for years.

«High resolution gives us the ability to look at intense weather, like hurricanes,» said Kevin Reed, a researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and a co-author on the paper.

These reactions may be short - lived or, in some cases, long - lasting.117, 118,119 For example, research demonstrated high levels of anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder among people affected by Hurricane Katrina, 120,121 and similar observations have followed floods122, 123 and heat waves.124 Some evidence suggests wildfires have similar effects.125 All of these events are increasingly fueled by climate change (see Ch.

As one particularly vivid example, when renowned hurricane expert Dr. Bill Grey refused to go along with then VP Al Gore's global warming nonsense at a Gore hosted climate science conference, he lost all further federal funding for his world class hurricane research.

Answers vary, but previous research has pointed the finger at changing storm tracks, particularly for tropical cyclones such as hurricanes and typhoons.

By comparison, the US 2014 budget for weather research (things like improved hurricane track / intensity prediction) was $ 82 million.

Already, supporters have drawn on the research from the study to call for forcing fossil fuel companies to pay for the costs of «climate damages,» including damage due to hurricanes and flooding.

Closed - minded skeptics point to higher uncertainty and the small degree of confidence that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) and UCAR (Unversity Corporation for Atmospheric Research) that tornadoes and hurricanes has or will become more intense with climate change.

(IV) the need for additional research and monitoring to improve forecasting of hurricanes and typhoons and to understand the relationship between climate change and hurricane and typhoon development.