Sentences with phrase «hurricane power»

There are various interpretations possible, e.g. a) The big increase in hurricane power over the past 30 years or so may not have much to do with global warming, or b) The models are simply not faithfully reproducing what nature is doing.

On the other hand, Swanson (2008) and others noted that Atlantic hurricane power dissipation is also well - correlated with other SST indices besides tropical Atlantic SST alone, and in particular with indices of Atlantic SST relative to tropical mean SST (e.g., Figure 1b from Vecchi et al. 2008).

'' a) The big increase in hurricane power over the past 30 years or so may not have much to do with global warming, or b) The models are simply not faithfully reproducing what nature is doing.

Here, the author draws causality relationships between global mean near - surface air temperatures and Atlantic sea surface temperatures and hurricane power dissipation indexes using statistical causality tests.

In July, The Times published an Op - Ed article by Adam Sobel of Columbia University on a Science paper he co-authored finding that air pollution may be temporarily limiting an expected boost in hurricane power in a warming climate.

[Reply: The calculation by Kerry Emanuel specifically applied to a 75 % increase in hurricane power.

The bulk of the evidence is that hurricane power will go up, but in some places it will go down.»

For example, in a paper published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society we showed that some models give very large increases in hurricane power (Figure 8a) in the Atlantic.

Alter Hurricane Katrina, the media storyline focused strongly on the role global warming may have played in increasing hurricane power and activity.