The phrase
"hurricane intensity" refers to how strong and powerful a hurricane is. It measures the severity of the storm and can indicate how much damage it might cause.
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Of these factors, only rising sea surface temperature was found to
influence hurricane intensity in a statistically significant way over a long - term basis.
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If hurricane intensity increases pole - ward... it is going to have to be addressed by governments, individuals and businesses,» she said.
The logic makes sense (increased SST's increase
hurricane intensity which increases damages from any given storm), but logic is not the same as scientific evidence.
So the policy idea is to greatly reduce GHGs so as to reduce
future hurricane intensity (& use savings from those reductions to storm - proof buildings).
Re # 205 My initial concerns were about the path functions for hurricanes and not for the theoretical mechanisms of hurricane formation nor for the predicted relations of
hurricane intensity with rising sst's etc..
Irma, the center storm in this image, broke a new record
for hurricane intensity by sustaining 185 mph winds for 36 hours.
At the CU World Affairs Conference Kerry Emanuel showed this graph of climate
model hurricane intensity forecasts out to the year 2100.
Most of the text in the recent IPCC reports focuses on the link
between hurricane intensity and climate change — an issue about which there is considerable debate within the scientific community.
Ideally, the authors of the Bam report are most suited to do this, as central to the critique is that of «data selectivity» that might affect preconceived opinions.This BAM report primarily
addressed hurricane intensity and it's possible relationship with global warming.
Oil - producing states in the Gulf of Mexico tend to resist climate action even though the Gulf is probably already experiencing damage from
rising hurricane intensity.
One complicated part of
hurricane intensity predictions involves understanding water vapor, which his current paper aptly shows by comparing his Figure 8b and Figure 10.
He says the finding should be placed in the context of other under - researched factors that could
affect hurricane intensity, including vertical changes in wind speed and the ocean surface cooling created by the storms themselves.
Tools for forecasting extreme weather have advanced in recent decades, but researchers and engineers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are working to enhance radars, satellites and supercomputers to further lengthen warning times for tornadoes and thunderstorms and to better
determine hurricane intensity and forecast floods.
From what I know, theoretically it should be possible, as the various climate geoengineering options proposed would have impacts precisely on the temperatures that
drive hurricane intensity;
Climate change may also be driving the observed trend of increasing
hurricane intensity as well as the observed trend of more rapidly intensifying hurricanes.
Gore indicated that it is
primarily Hurricane intensities which scientists largely agree should be expected to increase in association with warming surface temperatures, and specifically notes that
Scientists and meterologists use a special scale, called the Saffir Simpson
Hurricane Intensity Scale, to rate the strength of a hurricane they are watching.
Landsea also noted that an uptick in
hurricane intensity due to warmer sea - surface temperatures does not match the predictions of scientific models.
TheNOAA measurement of
hurricane intensity shows clearly there is notrend that corresponds with cimalte change and indeed the trend hasbeen falling during the last decade.
«Our work can be directly applied to a hurricane model to help
improve hurricane intensity predictions, which will help people make more informed decisions with regard to their safety,» said David Ortiz - Suslow, a Ph.D. candidate at the UM Rosenstiel School and lead author of the study.
Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, says the big challenge will be to
predict hurricane intensity.
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