Sentences with phrase «in tornado statistics»

The most natural way to determine whether global warming is altering tornado patterns is to look for changes in tornado statistics and then see whether climate models can explain those changes.

Not exact matches

«The fact that we don't see the presently understood meteorological signature of global warming in changing outbreak statistics leaves two possibilities: either the recent increases are not due to a warming climate, or a warming climate has implications for tornado activity that we don't understand.

But, of course, the tornado environments on Jan. 1 and Dec. 31 are very much related, and circular statistics allows researchers to capture how such relationships wrap back on themselves, as in a circle.

«What's pushing this rise in extreme outbreaks, during which the vast majority of tornado - related fatalities occur, is far from obvious in the present state of climate science,» said Cohen, the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor at Rockefeller University and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, who conducted the research while a visiting scholar in UChicago's Department of Statistics.

The effect is not measurable owing to the nature of tornado statistics which mainly reflect increasing numbers of people in more places.

Harold Brooks, a expert on tornado science and statistics at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Okla, told me why communities in Tornado Alley shouldn't necessarily rip up all schools and sprout domes or other reinforced structures:

1) Statistics on tornadoes are unreliable and exhibit spurious upward trends that are known to correspond to more people being in more places to see them.

«It is well known that strong to violent tornado activity in the US has decreased markedly since statistics began in the 1950s, which has also been a period of average warming.