Sentences with phrase «hurricane tracks»

Over the past 20 years, significant advances have been made in the science of hurricane track forecasting.

«We used information about historical hurricane tracks for the Eastern United States to identify the connection between the affected population, average per capital income and associated damages.,» Katja Frieler adds.

Reviewed by CNN as the best Hurricane Tracking app available for iPhone, it's the most used and most comprehensive tracking app available on any platform, say its creators.

Hurricane Tracker This old - school hurricane tracking app was one of the first and it remains relevant.

For example, fewer storms have been observed to strike land during warmer years even though overall activity is higher than average, 29 which may help to explain the lack of any clear trend in landfall frequency along the U.S. eastern and Gulf coasts.4, 5,6 Climate models also project changes in hurricane tracks and where they strike land.30 The specific characteristics of the changes are being actively studied.

«When you're talking specifically about hurricane tracks, if you look at the last three years, the American and European models perform virtually the same,» says Jeff Masters, co-founder and director of meteorology at The Weather Underground.

Their data will be used in computer models to improve weather forecasts, including hurricane tracks and intensities, severe thunderstorms and floods.

«Finally, we applied this relationship to thousands of potential future hurricane tracks that could affect the Eastern United States until 2100 under different levels of global warming.»

«The evidence seems strong» for a link between the NAO and preferred hurricane tracks, says climatologist Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

So climatologist James Elsner of Florida State University in Tallahassee and his colleagues looked for ties between hurricane tracks and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), a seesaw shift in atmospheric pressures over the ocean (Science, 12 February 1999, p. 948).

University of California at Berkeley physics grad student Robert Rohde used all available data from government sources to map 150 years» worth of hurricane tracks through September 2005.

For starters, there's «Public Evacuation Decisions and Hurricane Track Uncertainty,» by Eva Regnier of the Defense Resources Management Institute at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. (Management Science 54 (1), pp. 16 — 28).

By comparison, the US 2014 budget for weather research (things like improved hurricane track / intensity prediction) was $ 82 million.

According to NOAA's Historical Hurricane Tracks website, there were 39 tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific in May from 1950 - 2016, but only two of them made landfall at hurricane strength in May: Category 1 Hurricane Agatha of 1971, and Category 1 Hurricane Barbara of 2013.

The NOAA historical hurricane track site can be used to see where hurricanes and tropical storms have passed

«Although hurricane tracks have gradually moved northwards away from the western Caribbean, rising sea surface temperatures could promote the development of cyclonic storms within the western Caribbean,» says co-author of the report James Baldini, an Earth scientist at the University of Durham.

Kossin, J. P., S. J. Camargo, and M. Sitkowski, 2010: Climate modulation of North Atlantic hurricane tracks.

The NOAA Historical Hurricane Tracks online tool allows anyone to search and view storm tracks as far back as 1848.

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You would really love the daily Nimbus HRIR stuff that shows hurricane tracks, and the first estimate of the global temperature came from the HRIR data from Nimbus II!.

Of course, that system — the Saffir - Simpson scale — was invented in 1971, and didn't see use until 1974; accurate hurricane tracking via satellites has existed since the 1980s, and tracking in general hardly existed before the 1960s.

The direction of these storms / hurricanes is predictable.Last year a dozen hurricanes tracked beyond Cuba.In 2004 Florida suffered badly with several landfalls.

Our Animal Emergency Services team uses the National Hurricane Center's hurricane tracking services to track all hurricanes, including Hurricane Irma.

According to NOAA, during the past 15 years, hurricane track forecasts have improved by 50 percent, while the accuracy of intensity forecasts have not budged.

Their work encompasses a range of problems and time scales: from five - day model predictions of hurricane track and intensity, to understanding the causes of changes in extremes over the past century, to building new climate prediction models for seamless predictions out to the next several years, to earth system model projections of human - caused changes in various extremes (heat waves, hurricanes, droughts, etc.) over the coming century.

More than 13 years in the making, the center is designed to be the U.S. government's nerve center for a range of activities, including predicting hurricane tracks and forecasting ocean currents.

The Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project (HFIP), which began in 2009, is an effort to improve the service's ability to forecast hurricane tracks and intensity further in advance.

(You can learn more about the challenges of hurricane track and intensity forecasting in my 2004 piece on Hurricane Ivan.)

Hurricane tracks will continue to move northward (Graff and LaCasce, 2014) which makes events like Superstorm Sandy more likely.

Watching the current hurricane coverage (family in Fla / Ga / NC) I see no mention of sea surface temperature, no graphics of how it's changing as the hurricane tracks across it, nothing about the second hurricane coming on soon.

The HFIP aims to cut the average errors of hurricane track and intensity forecasts by 20 percent within five years and by 50 percent by 2019, within a seven - day forecast period.