Sentences with phrase «hurricane researcher»

A fresh study by a leading hurricane researcher has raised new questions about how hurricane strength and frequency might, or might not, be influenced by global warming.

Just to check on the state of the art, I sent the following query to a batch of hurricane researchers this morning.

I encourage you to read a Miami Herald Op - Ed article written by Kerry Emanuel, a veteran climate and hurricane researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Peter C. Frumhoff, an ecologist who directs science and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Some even don't get their acts together until they cross over the Pacific, said Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach.

Gerry Bell and Chris Landsea are NOAA hurricane researchers who have repeatedly emphasized natural «decadal» cycles not global warming as a cause of more powerful hurricanes.

University of Miami hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy figures that 75 to 80 percent of the devastation can be blamed on the human factor.

One of the world's most prominent hurricane researchers, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Kerry Emanuel, has proposed a stunning theory that suggests the AMO has a minor effect on hurricanes — and may not even exist at all.

In his letter, Landsea refers to the large body of evidence (ie more than just one study) supporting the consensus among hurricane researchers that is there is no detectable human signal in the hurricane record.

Enhancing hurricane intensity forecasts is a powerful motivator for many hurricane researchers, said Glenn, the lead author of the paper.

Using records dating back to 1855, hurricane researchers say they have uncovered an ongoing rise in the number of Atlantic hurricanes that tracks the increase in sea surface temperature related to climate change.

Storm names released for 2018 Hurricane Season This week, the Colorado State University hurricane researchers released their projections for the 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season.

An MIT hurricane researcher found his inbox flooded daily for two weeks last January with hate mail and threats directed at him and his wife.

The scientists were Peter C. Frumhoff, an ecologist who directs science and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Kerry Emanuel, a veteran climate and hurricane researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

«There is consensus among NOAA hurricane researchers and forecasters that recent increases in hurricane activity are primarily the result of natural fluctuations in the tropical climate system known as the tropical multi-decadal signal.»

Part 1: Hurricane Researcher Brian McNoldy on the Science Behind Sandy Part 3: Dr. Ralph Ternier Talks From Haiti About Sandy and Cholera

Meanwhile, a report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Kerry Emanuel, a prominent hurricane researcher and professor of atmospheric science at MIT, found that events of similar magnitude will become far more likely as the climate warms further.

Colorado State University hurricane researchers are out with their forecast for the season ahead

«As a general comment they show a lack of appreciation for the physical scale of hurricanes and simple ignorance of how they work,» wrote Hugh Willoughby, a hurricane researcher at Florida International University, in an email.

At the same time, hurricane researchers have grown weary of responding to proposals to slow storms and most remain skeptical that any tactic could be deployed in large enough numbers to have an effect on giant cyclones.

«When we get a particularly bad storm, people often try and attribute it to something larger,» Jennifer Collins, a hurricane researcher at the University of South Florida, says.

«I don't think Congress will take his proposal seriously at all... so it can probably be ignored in favor of the legislation that has actually passed,» Brian McNoldy, a hurricane researcher at the University of Miami, said in an email.

That pairing marked another first; never before had two Category 3 storms been in that area at the same time, according to hurricane researcher and forecaster Phil Klotzbach of Colorado State University.

Those unexpectedly warm waters were what caused some of the seasonal forecasts to slightly underestimate the amount of storm activity in the Atlantic, Philip Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher and seasonal forecaster at Colorado State University, wrote at the Capital Weather Gang blog.

«To me the revision by NHC seem reasonable, given the aircraft observations, and the additional information such as record warm temperatures at 700 mb (the warmer the air aloft the lower the surface pressure),» added Greg Holland, a hurricane researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

By the way, the Chris Landsea mentioned in the article is the same Chris Landsea (great name for a hurricane researcher, don't you think?)

I've sent a query to some hurricane researchers to get a bit more on what, besides warm sea temperatures, makes conditions this ripe for powerful tropical storms.

There were at least several dozen additional scientists in attendance, said one attendee, Stanley B. Goldenberg, a hurricane researcher for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Miami whom I've interviewed in the past on Atlantic hurricane patterns.

There has not been a major hurricane in either the North Atlantic Basin or the eastern Pacific this year, something that hasn't happened since 1968, according to Philip Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher and seasonal forecaster at Colorado State University.

Among those in attendance was Phil Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher at Colorado State University who now does much of the research for Bill Gray's seasonal hurricane predictions, the oldest and best - known annual forecast.

About a decade ago, a hurricane researcher named Chris Landsea re-examined wind and pressure data for hurricanes from the last active period, between the 1930s and 1960s.

«From 1970 to 1995, there weren't that many hurricanes, and the ones we had were nice, well - mannered, housebroken hurricanes that stayed out to sea and didn't make a mess,» said Hugh Willoughby, a hurricane researcher at Florida International University in Miami.