In addition to his scientific papers available on the GISS site, highlights of some of Hall's hurricane work have appeared on InsuranceLinked, including seasonal forecasts of
hurricane landfall probabilities.
Not exact matches
«This is the first set of numbers to show what the
landfall probabilities are for catastrophic
hurricanes,» Liu says.
Using these two methods, we find the
probability of two or more
hurricanes making U.S.
landfall is 28 % during El Niño, 48 % during neutral years, and 66 % during El Viejo (Figure 1).
During El Niño, we are 90 % confident that the
probability of no
hurricanes making U.S.
landfall is somewhere between 17 and 24 percent.
The reanalysis shows that during an El Niño year, the
probability of 2 or more
hurricanes making
landfall in the U.S. is 28 %.
Richards and O'Brien (1996) showed that the
probability of 2 or more
hurricanes making
landfall on the U.S. coast during El Niño is 21 %, while the
probability of 2 or more U.S.
hurricanes during neutral conditions is 46 %.
He cautioned, though, that during more active seasons the odds increase for
hurricanes to make
landfall in the U.S. «We know for the conditions that we expect this year, historically there is a much higher
probability of multiple
hurricane strikes in the U.S.»