Sentences with phrase «hurricane activity as»

I get to understand why Global Warming is not seriously discussed amongst the populace in general, by watching many TV Meteorologists, who utterly confuse the matter, who also seem to be limited by the range of their Doppler radars, seldom explain anything more than the latest extreme Hurricane activity as the result of a «cycle».

ABC also reported increased hurricane activity as if it were an established scientific fact that there were now more hurricanes and that they were caused by global warming.

There is evidence suggesting a human contribution to recent changes in hurricane activity as well as in storms outside the tropics, though a confident assessment will require further study.

Over the past 50 years there has been a strong statistical connection between tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures and Atlantic hurricane activity as measured by the Power Dissipation Index (which combines storm intensity, duration, and frequency).

Not exact matches

The impact of the catastrophic hurricane activity that hit the US during the reporting period will also give investors a higher tolerance for a profit growth slowdown, which could be viewed as temporary, and therefore have a limited effect, Goldman said.

The storm activity comes after Hurricane Harvey claimed about 60 lives and caused property damage estimated at as much as $ 180 billion in Texas and Louisiana.

The hurricane disruptions were seen as minor in terms of their impact on overall activity.

St. John's, Antigua — The island of Antigua is open for business as normal activity returned after a brushing from Hurricane Irma.

«Every week is unique, and pastors are faced with the need to get insight from the Spirit of God to understand the mood and emotional state of the congregants,» said Ríos, citing a rise in depression and marital issues among hurricane victims, as well as concerns over suicide rates and violent criminal activity in the long recovery period.

Hurricane Sandy and its recovery could cost New York as much as $ 18 billion in economic activity, Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said today.

ALBANY — One hundred New York state troopers will be deputized to carry out law enforcement activities in Puerto Rico as Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday authorized sending more resources to the hurricane - ravaged island.

One hundred New York state troopers will be deputized to carry out law enforcement activities in Puerto Rico as Gov. Andrew Cuomo authorized sending more resources to the hurricane - ravaged island.

The hurricane is spinning over waters that have warmed in the last century as a result of human activity.

«It is difficult to use climate models to study hurricane activity, and so studies such as ours, which produced a record of storms under different climate conditions, are important for our understanding of future storm activity,» Denniston said.

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.

She notes that a reliable proxy record for hurricanes would be very useful as a way of evaluating models of storm activity.

Eight of the last 10 years have been very active — in fact, we've never had as much activity on the records, going back to about 1870 or so, as in the past 10 years — and yet we went from 1992 until last year with no hurricanes coming through Florida.

The new metric may help engineers determine how the shape of a delta, such as the Mississippi's, may shift in response to engineered structures such as dams and levees, and environmental changes, such as hurricane activity and sea - level rise.

By monitoring, understanding, and predicting these climate patterns, forecasters can often make a confident outlook of the upcoming hurricane activity for the season as a whole.

«Our findings,» write the authors, «suggest that anthropogenic aerosol emissions influenced a range of societally important historical climate events such as peaks in hurricane activity and Sahel drought.»

NOAA has issued its annual forecast for the hurricane season, along with its now - standard explanation that there is a natural cycle of multidecadal (40 - 60 year) length in the North Atlantic circulation (often referred to as the «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» — see Figure), that is varying the frequency of Atlantic tropical cyclones, and that the present high level of activity is due to a concurrent positive peak in this oscillation.

Main: Hurricane experience as part of Global Hazards unit of work with Tweet activity.

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We can expect ongoing high levels of hurricane activity — and very importantly high levels of hurricane landfalls — as long as the active era continues.»

Finally — it is not remotely necessary for a season to be as intense as 2005 in order for it to be very intense — after, all, 2004 (15 tropical storms, 9 hurricanes, 6 major hurricanes) had over 150 % of the activity of an average season, yet was much less active than 2005 (28 tropical and subtropical storms, 15 hurricanes and 7 major hurricanes.)

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.

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).

Ok, now the next problem seems to be that the deep ocean would come into the act, and as the surface temperature began to catch up, as with ocean surface temperature, we should then expect significant hurricane activity, and otherwise increased storm conditions.

Some have even gone so far as to state that this study proves that recent trends in hurricane activity are part of a natural cycle.

As we have also pointed out in previous posts, we can indeed draw some important conclusions about the links between hurricane activity and global warming in a statistical sense.

The link between SSTs and hurricane activity is complex and subject to other variables such as the moisture content of the atmosphere (which is linked to SSTs) and wind shear aloft.

With respect to the headline «Hurricanes Growing More Fierce Over Past 30 Years», that is misleading as 30 years ago there was SST cooling and the hurricane activity had decreased.

Tropical North Atlantic SST has exhibited a warming trend of ~ 0.3 °C over the last 100 years; whereas Atlantic hurricane activity has not exhibited trendlike variability, but rather distinct multidecadal cycles as documented here and elsewhere.

Just wondering, does the relationship between hurricane and cyclone activity and global warming have as good a correlation as between tree rings and instrumented temperature readings?

• Anyone who doubts that the threat of large hurricanes is still being used as part of global warming campaigns should look no further than the energy and climate platform of a presidential candidate [pdf alert], who writes, «Global warming is real, is happening now and is the result of human activities.

As to the second the answer is probably no specifically referring to hurricane activity mentioned by McHugh the actual frequency of severe hurricanes is less now than it has been in the past: Only 4 «highest category» storms have occurred in the last 10 years!

The one that is cited most frequently and authoritatively as the cause of the increasing hurricane activity is the AMO (for example, by William Gray, Phil Klotzbach, and Roger Pielke Jr. — see Storm frenzy is not an anomaly, but a phase, Sept 13 2005)

As another hurricane season comes to a close with no serious activity to date, and even if there were some in the near future, a very tame year, the data piles up.

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).

Humans don't just have to worry about the greenhouse - emissions impacts that get nearly all of the attention, such as the hotly debated and hard - to - predict effects on hurricane activity in the United States.

My understanding of the hurricane debate is as follows: SST's ought to rise with global warming and all else equal that ought to mean greater hurricane reach / activity, but we don't really understand the «all else» yet.

This raises the prospect that, as hurricane activity increases for whatever reason, the threat of wildfires in the Southeast and Gulf Coast regions could grow as the climate continues to warm, some researchers say.

All the evidence such as the recent lull in Atlantic hurricane activity supports their claims.

The changing phases of Atlantic hurricane activity are not completely understood; but there appears to be a link to fluctuations in the thermohaline circulation, the global pattern of ocean currents which in western Europe appears as the Gulf Stream.

In addition, a paper published just last month, used records of storm surges going back to 1923 as a measure of hurricane activity.

Nearly one year after Hurricane Sandy ravaged the East Coast, the 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season has not produced a single land - falling hurricane in the U.S. Instead of having above - average storm activity, as the seasonal hurricane outlooks unanimously called for, the season has been quiet — notable for its inHurricane Sandy ravaged the East Coast, the 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season has not produced a single land - falling hurricane in the U.S. Instead of having above - average storm activity, as the seasonal hurricane outlooks unanimously called for, the season has been quiet — notable for its inHurricane Season has not produced a single land - falling hurricane in the U.S. Instead of having above - average storm activity, as the seasonal hurricane outlooks unanimously called for, the season has been quiet — notable for its inhurricane in the U.S. Instead of having above - average storm activity, as the seasonal hurricane outlooks unanimously called for, the season has been quiet — notable for its inhurricane outlooks unanimously called for, the season has been quiet — notable for its inactivity.

The stadium wave holds promise in putting into perspective numerous observations of climate behavior, such as regional patterns of decadal variability in drought and hurricane activity, the researchers say, but a complete understanding of past climate variability and projections of future climate change requires integrating the stadium - wave signal with external climate forcing from the sun, volcanoes and anthropogenic forcing.

... incomplete and misleading because it 1) omits any mention of several of the most important aspects of the potential relationships between hurricanes and global warming, including rainfall, sea level, and storm surge; 2) leaves the impression that there is no significant connection between recent climate change caused by human activities and hurricane characteristics and impacts; and 3) does not take full account of the significance of recently identified trends and variations in tropical storms in causing impacts as compared to increasing societal vulnerability.

«As we enter this extended period of active hurricane activity, it is important for our capital markets to contain such risk.

There has been a substantial increase in most measures of Atlantic hurricane activity since the early 1980s, the period during which high quality satellite data are available.20, 21,22 These include measures of intensity, frequency, and duration as well as the number of strongest (Category 4 and 5) storms.