Sentences with phrase «hurricane numbers»

Now she is throwing a direct back - handed attack on this board by using her «proxy - students» to criticize the excellent work that was done on hurricane numbers.

Most models to date have suggested that global hurricane numbers might decline.

Therefore it is entirely possible, in fact I would say to be expected, that we will see hurricane numbers and intensity decrease again within a few decades.

Better technology (e.g. satellites) bias current hurricane numbers upwards, but by how much.

So while hurricane numbers may, or may not, be increasing in numbers, the destructive potential of them looks most likely to.

The role of global warming in shaping hurricane numbers and strength remains complicated, with the latest work pointing in the Atlantic to fewer storms overall but a higher proportion in the strongest, most destructive categories.

In summary, neither our model projections for the 21st century nor our analyses of trends in Atlantic hurricane and tropical storm counts over the past 120 + yr support the notion that greenhouse gas - induced warming leads to large increases in either tropical storm or overall hurricane numbers in the Atlantic.

Overall, there appears to have been a substantial 100 - year trend leading to related increases of over 0.78 C in SST and over 100 % in tropical cyclone and hurricane numbers.

It is concluded that the overall trend in SSTs, and tropical cyclone and hurricane numbers is substantially influenced by greenhouse warming.

Stop tying every short term fluctuation, whether it be ice sheets, hurricane numbers, or the number of mosquitoes in Kathmandu to global warming or the lack thereof.

But a new study in Nature this week (subscription) throws more weight behind arguments that hurricane numbers are on the rise and could continue to surge as a result of global warming.

Statistical analysis of the record revealed «the hurricane number is actually decreasing in time,» which finding is quite stunning... as the Mexican research team indicates, «when analyzing the entire time series built for this study, i.e., from 1749 to 2012, the linear trend in the number of hurricanes is decreasing».»

In other words, there is little evidence from current dynamical models that 21st century climate warming will lead to large (~ 300 %) increases in tropical storm numbers, hurricane numbers, or PDI in the Atlantic.

Existing records of past Atlantic tropical storm or hurricane numbers (1878 to present) in fact do show a pronounced upward trend, which is also correlated with rising SSTs (e.g., see blue curve in Fig. 4 or Vecchi and Knutson 2008).

Mark Saunders of Tropical Storm Risk at the University College of London, UK, disagrees with Wang and Lee's assessment that landfall is a more accurate indicator of the long - term trends in hurricane numbers.