Sentences with phrase «fueling storm intensity»

That's because local increases in sea surface temperatures are more effective in fueling storm intensity than are planet - wide increases.

Not exact matches

Climate change is certainly an important aspect — it is fueling sea level rise and the increasing intensity of storms.

But a reduction in the number and intensity of large hurricanes driving ocean waters on shore — such as this month's Hurricane Joaquin, seen, which reached category 4 strength — may also play a role by cooling sea - surface temperatures that fuel the growth of these monster storms, the team notes.

As the storm moves forward over these eddies, the warm ocean waters below help fuel the storm's intensity through enhanced and sustained heat and moisture fluxes.

Although scientists think the contribution of global warming to Haiyan's extreme intensity is likely to have been small, Haiyan did have deeper, warmer pools of water in the Pacific before it hit the Philippines to provide sufficient energy to fuel storm intensification.

Climate change is fueling an increase in the intensity and snowfall of winter storms.

Over the coming decades, Atlantic hurricanes are likely to increase in strength as sea surface temperatures increase, fueling the intensity of storms in the Atlantic Ocean, and significantly increasing rainfall rates over those of present day storms.

(Extremely warm sea surface temperatures both in the Gulf of Mexico and off the U.S. East Coast are helping to fuel the present storm's record intensity.