Sentences with phrase «increasing storm strength»

This brings us to your next argument: «There is no scientific basis for thinking that an increasing storm strength trend would limit itself permanently to cat 4s, and as noted below a good basis for thinking otherwise.»

There is no scientific basis for thinking that an increasing storm strength trend would limit itself permanently to cat 4s, and as noted below a good basis for thinking otherwise.

Not exact matches

Pollution from China's coal - burning power plants has increased the strength of storms in the Pacific Northwest by 10 percent over the last three decades

There is, however, limited evidence from a relatively short time period that storm strength is increasing, such as the Emanuel (2005) «power dissipation index» of hurricane intensity.

That translates to more than 10 mile per hour increase in the strength of these very strong sort of category 4 category 5 storms.»

Although lower, thicker storm clouds and increased wind shear don't directly cause tornadoes, they have been shown to intensify a tornado's strength if one does form.

Wind shear also helps to keep a thunderstorm's updraft separated from its downdraft, increasing the storm's strength and duration.

Most IPCC climate models project an increase in the strength of tropical storms and hurricanes as the oceans warm.

Trenberth notes that global warming has already increased the average amount of water vapor in the atmosphere by about 4 %, «extra moisture flowing into the storms that produced the heavy rains and likely contributed to the strength of the storms through added energy.»

In the south low pressure at the poles increases the strength of the circumpolar current through Drakes Passage and constrain storms to the polar region — with significant implications for Southern Hemisphere hydrology.

Over the coming decades, Atlantic hurricanes are likely to increase in strength as sea surface temperatures increase, fueling the intensity of storms in the Atlantic Ocean, and significantly increasing rainfall rates over those of present day storms.

Computer models that simulate the physics of tropical cyclones suggest that this difference should increase as the climate and sea surface temperatures warm, and that storm strength should increase with it.

Ever since the early 1990s, scientific reports have highlighted the vulnerability of West Africa to inundation, flooding and loss of key industries, food growing and infrastructure due to glacial melt, thermal expansion of ocean waters set off by warming, and an increase in storm strength in the North Atlantic.

It will also be interesting to see plaintiffs explain this graph of accumulated cyclone energy in the light of their theory that man - made global warming is increasing hurricane strengths and frequencies (ACE is a sort of integration of hurricane and tropical storm strengths over time).

Climate scientist Kerry Emanuel describes physics behind expected increase in storm strength due to climate change.

In concert with the results for increased extremes of intense precipitation, even if the wind strength of storms in a future climate did not change, there would be an increase in extreme rainfall intensity.

The roughly factor of two increase in speed shown is partly due to decreases in ice thickness and strength, but it is safe to predict that if cyclonic storm events like this one ending 2015 continue penetrating the eastern Arctic Ocean, they will increase ice export and reduce summer 2016 ice extent.

Last thought for a while — is the observed increase in the height of the troposphere a measure of storm strength?

However, by increasing the categrories (4 +5) or (3 +4 +5) there is clear evidence (given the limitations in the data records) that the distribution of hurricane strength has shifted towards more intense storms.

Here, the science is far less equivocal, and there is a broad consensus that storms are increasing in strength, or severity.