Sentences with phrase «intense cyclones»

A discernible trend of increasing temperatures and declining rainfall, coupled with more intense cyclones and floods, is disrupting life across Tamil Nadu, which is currently battling a drought

There is evidence of a minimum of intense cyclones occurring in the 1970s (11), which could indicate that our observed trend toward more intense cyclones is a reflection of a long - period oscillation.

It is very likely that this trend also can be found for the periods 1975 - 1989 and 1990 - 2004, since there were more intense cyclones before 1970 - 1974 than from 1975 - 1979 and there were quite a number of extreme cyclones from 2000 - 2004 according to JTWC.

Consequently, the higher frequency of the intense cyclones during the last decade could come from a decline in the vertical shearing of the horizontal wind.

Still, it may make sense to start with policies based on the efficient - market concept (tax / credit), which should tend to have a desired effect (while markets are imperfect, it's not like they're worse than randomness; perhaps the efficient market concept is a little bit like the quasi-geostrophic approximation applied to midlatitude synoptic scale systems — intense cyclones (large Ro) will require corrections, but it's a good place to start.).

Our people are already suffering coastal devastating impacts and losses at the current 0.8 °C of warming — coastal erosion, coral bleaching, salty drinking water, flooding, and more intense cyclones and hurricanes.

Bangladesh and the Indian cities of Kolkata and Mumbai will be confronted with increased flooding, intense cyclones, sea - level rise, and warming temperatures.

For rising sea levels, shrinking polar regions, diminishing glaciers, drier droughts, wetter floods, more intense cyclones, say a growing global cadre of scientists.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said a one - metre rise in sea level could displace 30 million people in her country, a delta nation of more than 150 million on the Bay of Bengal that faces heavy seasonal flooding and intense cyclones.

Unlike coastal fisheries which have suffered due to more frequent and intense cyclones, these aquaculture efforts can be sustained even in the face of climate - related challenges.

«We predicted that intense cyclones will increase during the late monsoon season in the Arabian Sea due to anthropogenic (manmade) forcing,» says Hiroyuki Murakami, a Princeton... Read more

The range of intense cyclones on the other side of the globe is more limited.

He told Thomson Reuters Foundation at the UN-backed climate talks in Warsaw that «the global frequency of tropical cyclones will change little (as a result of climate change) but the frequency of the most intense cyclones will increase in some regions.»

The First reference happens to be fascinating, especially WRT the claim of increasing intense cyclones:

Balanced against this, higher resolution modelling studies typically project substantial increases in the frequency of the most intense cyclones, and increases of the order of 20 % in the precipitation rate within 100 km of the storm centre.

And a recent rash of unusually intense cyclones may be linked to changes in the tropical Pacific.

La Nina bring frequent and intense cyclones and rainfall to Australia and some 2 billion others.

Consequently I would expect a more active storm track and more intense cyclones.

While some studies consistently project decreases in the globally averaged frequency of tropical cyclones, substantial increases are projected in the frequency of the most intense cyclones.

The team interpreted those shifts as the effect of cyclonic winds moving above and below the black hole at speeds of about 4000 kilometers per second, tens of thousands of times stronger than the most intense cyclones on Earth.

This diary of destruction shows that far fewer intense cyclones have pummeled the Gulf coast in the last millennium than in previous times, according to a report presented here yesterday at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

The floods were quickly followed by one of the most intense cyclone ever to hit Queensland.

Not exact matches

Two U.N. reports this month said greenhouse gases had reached record levels in the atmosphere and a warming world would likely bring more floods, stronger cyclones and more intense droughts.

Hurricane Rita is the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the most intense tropical cyclone observed in the Gulf of Mexico.

Instead, climate models project more intense rains and tropical cyclones, although cyclones are expected to happen less frequently.

Over the past three decades, the incidence of cyclones in the tropics has actually diminished — because while tropical cyclones may become more intense in a warmer climate, it is actually more difficult to generate them.

What he found was that not only were the simulations much closer to actual observations, but the high - resolution models were far better at reproducing intense storms, such as hurricanes and cyclones.

That signal is translating into all sorts of events — droughts, intense rainfall, more intense tropical cyclone activity, crop stress, heat waves, and so on.

These shifts may include rising sea levels, stronger tropical cyclones, the loss of soil moisture under higher temperatures, more intense precipitation and flooding, more frequent droughts, the melting of glaciers and the changing seasonality of snowmelt.

Instead, the report focuses on problems that are likely to disproportionately hit developing countries: coastal inundation from rising sea levels, plummeting food production and associated malnutrition, unprecedented heat waves, increasing fresh water scarcity, more frequent and intense tropical cyclones, and the loss of biodiversity.

Intense tropical cyclone activity has increased since about 1970.

The research shows a consistent progression in these conditions, suggesting that the Bay of Bengal will be the location of increasingly intense post-monsoon cyclones.

Hurricanes and tropical cyclones become up to 50 percent more intense when passing over oceans inundated with fresh water

It is very rare for a tropical cyclone to make landfall from the south in the state, although the remnants have sometimes brought intense rain to the region as the storms break up and move into the southwest U.S.

Dennis: Due to intense fist pumping, God of War III will cause a cyclone that demolishes all attendees.

In the past 16 months, two exceptionally intense tropical cyclones, Haiyan and Pam, have struck the western Pacific with devastating effect.

Tropical storms can be fairly mighty too... The second grey line gives an indication of the ratio intense (category 3 and higher) to weak cyclones.

According to the IPCC AR5, however, there are little indications of a change in the number of tropical cyclones, although they are becoming more intense (p. 107, TS.5.8.4 Cycyclones, although they are becoming more intense (p. 107, TS.5.8.4 CyclonesCyclones):

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

While the total number of cyclones may not increase (though there seems to be quite a bit of uncertainty here), the intense ones are projected to increase.

(2) low to mid-latitude coastal regions are already facing a greater likelihood of very intense tropical cyclones that are drawing energy from significantly warmer ocean waters.

What he found was that not only were the simulations much closer to actual observations, but the high - resolution models were far better at reproducing intense storms, such as hurricanes and cyclones.

There is observational evidence for an increase of intense tropical cyclone activity in the North Atlantic since about 1970, correlated with increases in tropical SSTs.

There is very good evidence to support the conclusion that continued unmitigated climate change will lead to more intense tropical cyclones, and there is even some evidence (see the Nature paper above) that on average cyclones are already getting stronger and more devastating.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation helps keep tropical cyclones, like Hurricane Joaquin above, from becoming too intense.

«Australia is amongst those most exposed, extreme weather events, firestorms, more intense if not more frequent cyclones,» he said.

A name of Chinese origin, meaning «great wind» applied to the intense tropical cyclones which occur in the western Pacific Ocean.

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

Which forms the basis for the IPCC claim of high climate sensitivity (mean value of 3.2 C), resulting in significant global warming (up to 6.4 C warming by 2100), «extreme high sea levels», increased «heat waves», increased «heavy rains» and floods, increased «droughts», increased «intense tropical cyclones» — which, in turn, lead to crop failures, disappearance of glaciers now supplying drinking water to millions, increased vector borne diseases, etc. (for short, potentially catastrophic AGW — or «CAGW»).

-- I have listed the «catastrophic results» that are projected to occur, according to IPCC AR4 WG1 SPM, pp. 8 and 13: temperature increase of up to 6.4 °C, heat waves, floods, droughts, increased intense tropical cyclones, extreme high sea level, as well as some of the secondary impacts, which IPCC projects in WG2, WG3: crop failures, disappearing glaciers now supplying drinking water for millions, spread of vector diseases, etc..