Sentences with phrase «hurricane activity around»
[The MIT] study used six newly upgraded global climate computer models to simulate future hurricane activity around the world.
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The team reconstructed 220 years of hurricane activity in the area around southern Georgia, representing storms that struck anywhere from the adjacent gulf to South Carolina.
By Rasmus Benestad & Michael Mann Just as Typhoon Nargis has reminded us of the destructive power of tropical cyclones (with its horrible death toll in Burma — around 100,000 according to the UN), a new paper by Knutson et al in the latest issue of the journal Nature Geosciences purports to project a reduction in Atlantic hurricane activity (principally the «frequency» but also integrated measures of powerfulness).
The shift in the PDO can have significant implications for global climate, affecting Pacific and Atlantic hurricane activity, droughts and flooding around the Pacific basin, the productivity of marine ecosystems, and global land temperature patterns.
Off the top of my head I can think of at least three teleconnections connected with El Nino: increased precipitation in the SW US, decreased Atlantic hurricane activity and increased storminess along the SW coast of Africa and around the Cape of Good Hope.
The results show high hurricane activity also occurred at around 1000 AD, where levels approached that seen today.
Interested in seeing where and when hurricanes might have affected commercial navigation or port activities around the world?
Brighter areas show where they have overlapped in space, representing areas of historically frequent hurricane activity — tumultuous ocean zones probably best to steer around.
- and data on the frequency of North Atlantic tropical storms going back to 1851 show strong minima of hurricane activity in the periods centered around 1850, 1915, and 1980 and maxima centered around 1875, 1950, and at the end of the time series (Elsner et al. 1999)-- these variations are approximately in phase with the AMO (Knight et al. 2005).»