Sentences with phrase «hurricane intensity as»

Climate change may also be driving the observed trend of increasing hurricane intensity as well as the observed trend of more rapidly intensifying hurricanes.

Not exact matches

No one knows exactly what happens in the cradle of a hurricane but we do know that often the smallest of factors can act as a catalyst to a storm that builds in intensity as it crosses the Atlantic and crashes ashore in North America.

The intensity of Hurricane Maria, which made landfall on Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm on September 20, was part of why it was so devastating to the island and its weak infrastructure, leaving Puerto Ricans in a humanitarian crisis.

The best historical analogue for a hurricane that follows NHC's 5 pm EDT Friday track and intensity forecast for Irma may be Hurricane Donna of 1960, which tore through the Florida Keys just northeast of Marathon as a Category 4 storm with 140 mhurricane that follows NHC's 5 pm EDT Friday track and intensity forecast for Irma may be Hurricane Donna of 1960, which tore through the Florida Keys just northeast of Marathon as a Category 4 storm with 140 mHurricane Donna of 1960, which tore through the Florida Keys just northeast of Marathon as a Category 4 storm with 140 mph winds.

Add extra shots as needed to match the categorical intensity of your particular hurricane.

Scientists working to improve storm intensity forecasting have identified a more accurate means of predicting a hurricane's strength as it approaches landfall, using sea temperature readings that they say will help forecasters better prepare communities for storm impacts in the face of sea - level rise caused by rising global temperatures.

Others, such as a new microsatellite system aiming to improve measurements of hurricane intensity and a highly anticipated new computer simulation that forecasts hurricane paths and intensities, are still in the calibration phase.

Powerful hurricanes such as Harvey, Irma and Maria are also providing a testing ground for new tools that scientists hope will save lives by improving forecasts in various ways, from narrowing a storm's future path to capturing swift changes in the intensity of storm winds.

Still, he also cautions against the assumption that rainpower is the only factor impacting hurricane intensity, as not all the eyewall's rain falls directly down through the updraft.

Previously, researchers thought rain in the eyewall increased a hurricane's intensity, as heat released from the condensing water added to the overall power of the storm.

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.

Even as cities become more vulnerable to moderate storms, the intensity of hurricanes may increase dramatically, says Kerry Emanuel, a meteorologist at MIT.

Even as Irma struck Florida, civil engineer Forrest Masters of the University of Florida in Gainesville, his students and collaborators traveled to the southern part of the state to study the intensity and variation in the hurricane's winds.

There is, however, limited evidence from a relatively short time period that storm strength is increasing, such as the Emanuel (2005) «power dissipation index» of hurricane intensity.

Building on methods they used to assess the impact of hurricanes such as Katrina, Gustav, and Rita on forests and tree mortality, scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have produced a rapid mapping of the disturbance intensity across Puerto Rico's forests with the help of Google Earth Engine.

Climate models suggest that hurricane intensity should increase as the world warms, and that the most intense storms will become a bigger proportion of the total.

After a natural disaster, such as a high intensity hurricane, tens of thousands could be displaced to areas ill - equipped to handle the sudden influx of people for an unknown period of time.

The following figure, for example, represents an assessment of what will happen to the number and intensity of hurricanes as the climate warms.

Perhaps worldwide melting of glaciers by global warming will increase the incidence of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, as well as increasing the intensity of hurricanes.

Several recent studies such as Emanuel (2005 — previously discussed here) and Hoyos et al (2006 — previously discussed here) have emphasized the role of increasing tropical sea surface temperatures (SSTs) on recent increases in hurricane intensities, both globally and for the Atlantic.

With regard to Williams answer to Terry (# 34), I believe that Terry is correct that it is temperature differences that are fundamental, and not, for the most part, the temperature itself, as Emanuel has discussed in a series of important papers on the maximum intensity that hurricanes can attain.

The current Landsea / Trenberth / Emanuel discussion has been parsed by many to mean that Landsea claims that the number of hurricanes is constant, and Trenberth is claiming that their intensity should increase as global warming heats the ocean surface.

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).

The evolution of the hurricanes is altered in some way by conditions other than SST (such as humidity) in the various models because the resulting intensity of the hurricanes seems to be shifted somewhat surprisingly by a constant amount across all SSTs according to Figure 11.

As with the intensity of hurricanes, that's a tough, if not impossible, call.

As we have discussed elsewhere on this site, statistical measures that focus on trends in the strongest category storms, maximum hurricane winds, and changes in minimum central pressures, suggest a systematic increase in the intensities of those storms that form.

Furthermore, the fact is (as shown in Figure 1) that hurricane intensity has increased in recent decades as SST has risen (at least in the North Atlantic for which trends are most reliable) and this prediction is based on fairly fundamental and robust thermodynamic arguments explored by Emanuel and others for decades now.

In a few short years, when the Arctic sea ice is totally absent during the summer months, and the water and air up there get hot (instead of being cold as it was during the past 10,000 years or more), we have no idea what is going to happen to the weather and that includes any attempt to predict intensities and frequencies of hurricanes, which, in my opinion, is a non sequitur.

Why is Katrina used as an example of hurricane intensity, when it was documented as only a Category 3 hurricane (albeit with a large storm surge)?

It's important to remember that in 2006, both sides in the hurricane - climate argument were awaiting Kossin's paper and saw it as a first attempt by a neutral arbiter to come in and reanalyze the global hurricane intensity data.

Which hurricanes we will reduce in intensity by our GHG reductions, we don't know, but since we care for all people, it doesn't matter which ones we help reduce, as long as we keep helping to reduce them.

The draft testimony says «Climate change is anticipated to alter the frequency, timing, intensity, and duration of extreme weather events, such as hurricanes and floods.»

As early as 1992 my Earth Day display on GW had a big hurricane on it, with mention of GW contributing to hurricane intensity AND frequencAs early as 1992 my Earth Day display on GW had a big hurricane on it, with mention of GW contributing to hurricane intensity AND frequencas 1992 my Earth Day display on GW had a big hurricane on it, with mention of GW contributing to hurricane intensity AND frequency.

Notably, issues such as why a given hurricane stalled or took a particular track (problems in dynamics) could not reliably be attributed to anthropogenic climate change, unlike intensity (which is clearly related to the thermodynamic state of the atmosphere and oceans).

In this context, I used Kossin's study as a peg to discuss just how contested the global hurricane intensity records remain, especially in basins other than the Atlantic.

And, as increase in ocean temperature lags increase in atmospheric temp., even if no AGW signal is yet visible in the hurricane data, this may not mean very much in terms of the future impact of AGW on hurricane intensity.

In following the course of projections for this storm, and then the burst of criticism about failed intensity forecasts, I was brought back to the hours I spent with meteorologists at the National Hurricane Center in September, 2004, as they tracked the course of Hurricane Ivan (shortly before I headed to Alabama to cover its landfall as a major hurricane; here's a narrated report I filed fromHurricane Center in September, 2004, as they tracked the course of Hurricane Ivan (shortly before I headed to Alabama to cover its landfall as a major hurricane; here's a narrated report I filed fromHurricane Ivan (shortly before I headed to Alabama to cover its landfall as a major hurricane; here's a narrated report I filed fromhurricane; here's a narrated report I filed from Mobile).

Furthermore, the paper clearly states that it doesn't address hurricane intensity, but only the landfalling hurricane record — and as others have noted the landfalling hurricane record doesn't really relate to the total hurricane frequency.

Don Keiller — as others have pointed out, that paper doesn't attempt to address the issue of the recent increase in Atlantic hurricane intensity, or the ongoing increasing trend of increasing sea surface temperatures and atmospheric moisture content.

By 2100 the number of hurricanes could drop by up to a third, but the average intensity of the storm could increase by as much as 11 %.

Wind varies in intensity and strength from a gentle breeze to a powerful and destructive storm, such as a hurricane or tornado.

Increased intensity of hurricanes as expected from rising sea surface temperatures 12.

Since hurricane intensity and detection data is problematic as one goes back in time, when reporting and observing practices were different than today, it is possible that we underestimated global hurricane energy during the 1970s.

This means that Haiyan had warm water extending at least 100 meters deep to use as fuel; this was a major factor that increased the intensity of the hurricane.

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;

Building on methods they used to assess the impact of hurricanes such as Katrina, Gustav, and Rita on forests and tree mortality, scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have produced a rapid mapping of the disturbance intensity across Puerto Rico's forests with the help of Google Earth Engine.

While tropical hurricane intensity is primarily driven by latent heat from warm sea surface temperatures, an extra-tropical storm is primarily driven by baroclinic processes (differences in the pressure gradient) such as the gradient due to the contrast between the warm Gulf Stream and cold continental air mass.

(I) the past research completed related to hurricane and typhoon development, track, and intensity as reviewed by Working Groups I and II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;

As NOAA explains «The ACE index is used to calculate the intensity of the hurricane season and is a function of the wind speed and duration of each tropical cyclone.»

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.