Sentences with phrase «hurricane science»

Is there an outsize responsibility of the I.P.C.C. team there to remind the world about the real complexity (multiple drivers of risk, as in Texas and Australia) and persistent uncertainty (as in hurricane science)?

The 2017 season has not been very exceptional when compared against the historical empirical evidence, as hurricane science expert, Philip Klotzbach, clearly documents - see the adjacent table images.

St. Laurent says the gliders will revolutionise hurricane science: «Suddenly you have the ability to lay a data grid out under the ocean and collect real information before, during and after a storm event.»

(Added because Tenney Naumer, in a comment below, complained that my summary of hurricane science didn't convey the breadth of thinking in the field.)

4) A case in point on recent hurricane science coverage is this important paper published in June in, you guessed it, Nature.

This is the state of hurricane science in the new century: a mix of growing skill and persistent uncertainty, of intuition and algorithms, satellites and erasers.

Until I hear otherwise from the hurricane science community, I would say no.

In a diary a few weeks ago I indicated that the exaggeration of hurricane science, in the wake of the active 2005 - 2006 hurricane seasons and hurricane Katrina, didn't do harm to risk assessment and (re) insurance companies.