Sentences with phrase «intense hurricanes»

The frequency of more intense hurricanes, possibly enhanced by global warming may have increased as well.

Thus, that study could not address the important question of the frequency of intense hurricanes.

To my knowledge there is no well - established link for that (though climate change is indeed making the most intense hurricanes even stronger).

Recent research in this area suggests that there has been an increase in intense hurricane activity over the past 40 years.

Apparently global warming causes both increasingly intense hurricanes and increasingly unpredictable weather patterns.

These two papers add to the growing body of evidence that we are seeing more intense hurricanes as a result of human - caused global warming.

«Warm sea - surface temperatures are clearly the fuel for intense hurricanes,» he said.

As noted above, there is some indication from high resolution models of substantial increases in the numbers of the most intense hurricanes even if the overall number of tropical storms or hurricanes decreases.

«A warming world has the potential not for more hurricanes, but rather more intense hurricanes,» she says.

In the face of intense hurricanes, nature has an important role to play in reducing flood risk for communities.

All anticipate increases in the frequency of the most intense hurricanes, and (depending on source) possible, probable, or uncertain reductions in overall hurricane frequency.

The pattern isn't as evident in the northern Atlantic Ocean as it is in the southern Indian Ocean and the southern Pacific Ocean, but if the trend continues, it means more intense hurricanes in places of greater population.

2005 remains the most active and intense hurricane season on record, spawning three other Category 5 storms in addition to Katrina: Emily, Rita and Wilma.

There is even evidence in our paper (see our Figure 2) that the period before 1970 saw more intense hurricane landfalls than the period since.

«In our view, there are better - than - even odds that the numbers of very intense hurricanes (Categories 4 and 5, with winds of 130 mph or more) will increase by a substantial fraction,» according to an overview of research by NOAA scientists.

How can two such intense hurricanes — Harvey and then Irma — occur in a very short period of time?

Aerosols in the lower atmosphere have reduced global warming and the frequency of intense hurricanes by reflecting a small fraction of sunlight back to space.

By Senator Jeff Sessions It has been eight years since the last major hurricane struck the United States — a lull that experts call an «extended and intense hurricane drought,» the longest such drought since reliable records began in the 19th century.

The strongest hurricanes in the present climate may be upstaged by even more intense hurricanes over the next century as the earth's climate is warmed by increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Intense hurricanes possibly more powerful than any storms New England has experienced in recorded history frequently pounded the region during the first millennium, from the peak of the Roman Empire into the height of the Middle Ages, according to a new study.

In fact, scientists have already observed an uptick in intense hurricanes since 1970, according to an upcoming report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which Abraham has reviewed.

During the warm phase of the cycle (coincident with the 1938 hurricane, the flurry of storms in the 1950s and Hurricane Donna), there is an increased chance that weak storms will evolve into more intense hurricane systems.

The recent intense hurricanes in the Atlantic have sharply focused attention on how climate change can exacerbate extreme weather events.

That trend is likely to continue and scientists project that it could help increase the number of intense hurricanes while possibly reducing the overall number of all storms.

And this is on top of ongoing efforts by the administration aimed at «preventing scientists who believe there might be such a link [between global warming and more intense hurricanes] from speaking out.»

Most likely we are already committed to at least some of these climate changes, and even if the models are wrong and these increased numbers of intense hurricanes fail to emerge in the future, Knutson and his colleagues believe that society still needs to work harder at minimizing the damage hurricanes cause.

The prehistoric sediments showed that there were two periods of elevated intense hurricane activity on Cape Cod — from 150 to 1150 and 1400 to 1675.

Similar to reading a tree ring to tell the age of a tree and the climate conditions that existed in a given year, scientists can read the sediment cores to tell when intense hurricanes occurred.

The most recent study on the issue, published this month in the journal Science, found that while the incidence of hurricanes and tropical storms has remained roughly constant over the last 30 years, there has been a rise in the number of intense hurricanes with wind speeds above 211km / h (131mph).

The periods of intense hurricanes uncovered by the new research were driven in part by intervals of warm sea surface temperatures that previous research has shown occurred during these time periods, according to the new study.

Up to five of those could become intense hurricanes, with maximum sustained winds of more than 111 miles an hour and storm surges at least nine feet above normal.

«An important finding is that the proportion of intense hurricanes appears to initially increase in response to warming oceans, but then approach a saturation level after which no further increases occur.

In short, the Grinsted results suggest that by the end of the century, we will see 2 to 7 times more Katrina - like intense hurricanes.

Writing as background for his work, Seo states that alarming predictions of more intense hurricanes because of climate change «are of great concern,» yet he says there have been «few TC [tropical cyclone] studies in the Southern Hemisphere,» adding that there has been «no economic assessment of damages in the past.»

Thus, we conclude that the graded beds represent deposition related to intense hurricane precipitation combined with wind - driven vegetation disturbance that exposes fresh, loose sediment.

Also Christopher Landsea with the NOAA Hurricane Research Division found less intense intense hurricanes.

While hurricanes are a natural part of our climate system, recent research suggests that there has been an increase in intense hurricane activity in the North Atlantic since the 1970s.

Also, unlike the bulk of climate models to date, the increase in odds of extreme storms found in the study stems both from a shift toward more intense hurricanes as well as an overall increase in hurricane frequency.

But there are two climate - related issues that we need to consider now: rising sea level (which is already affecting the magnitude of storm surges, which in practice do much of the damage in hurricanes and other coastal storms), and projections that the incidence of very intense hurricanes should increase in the 100 - year time scale.

«The most intense hurricanes cause communities major material damage and, in some cases, many lives are lost.

The report concludes that a warmer climate could affect U.S. residents both directly (through droughts, heat waves, and increasingly intense hurricanes) and indirectly (through greater incidence of disease transmitted by mosquitoes and other carriers, decreased air quality, and rising pollen counts).

Older data from the North Atlantic and Western North Pacific (which together represents 64 % of all global intense landfalling hurricanes 1970 - 2010 and 69 % of all hurricanes) indicates that landfalling intense hurricanes in these two basins occurred at a 40 % higher rate from 1950 - 1969 than 1970 - 2010.