Sentences with phrase «intensify over warmer waters»

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They strengthen over warm water, such as that around Florida, and rising temperatures create more water vapor in the atmosphere, intensifying rainfall.

Perhaps all of this newly freed up ice - cold water at the poles is temporarily acting as a negative feedback, but as it absorbs more of the solar radiation, over time, it will transform into what we rightly think: a predominately positive feedback system, rapidly intensifying the warming.

However, all other factors being equal, many studies and observations reveal that hurricanes intensify as they pass over patches of warm water.

This has been observed when Atlantic hurricanes intensify as they crossed warm water rings from the Gulf Stream (Effects of a Warm Oceanic Feature on Hurricane Opal, Shay et al 1999 AMS), as well as in the case of Katrina, which intensified rapidly to Cat 5 over an unusually warm Gulf of Mexwarm water rings from the Gulf Stream (Effects of a Warm Oceanic Feature on Hurricane Opal, Shay et al 1999 AMS), as well as in the case of Katrina, which intensified rapidly to Cat 5 over an unusually warm Gulf of MexWarm Oceanic Feature on Hurricane Opal, Shay et al 1999 AMS), as well as in the case of Katrina, which intensified rapidly to Cat 5 over an unusually warm Gulf of Mexwarm Gulf of Mexico.

However, just looking at the isolated case of Katrina, if Katrina hadn't encountered a deep warm pool of water in the Gulf of Mexico, it wouldn't have intensified over the Gulf (historically rare behavior for hurricanes to do that).

My own guesstimate starts with events that have either been formally attributed (in a probabilistic way) to climate change — an example is the 2003 European heatwave — or which have a demonstrable link to physical processes consistent with a climate influence — examples include Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, both of which were observed to rapidly intensify over unusually warm waters.

But was it not scientists, with their words printed in the Guardian, repeated by policy - makers, which warned of «Arctic death spirals»; «ice - free Arctic summers»; the proliferation of disease; worsening, intensifying and increasing frequency of storms, flood, drought and fire; dramatic decreases in agricultural productivity in Africa; increased warming between 2009 - 14; the immanent demise of Himalayan glaciers and the consequent denial of water to over a billion people; The deaths of 150,000 and then 300,000 people in the developing world each year; and so on?