Sentences with phrase «large cyclone»

A large cyclone in 1970 caused 500,000 deaths, but a similar cyclone in the same area in late 2007 (including a tsunami - like 2 - metre - high sea water intrusion) caused only 8000 deaths, though affecting the houses or livelihoods or 8 million people: most of the more exposed people received early warning, and took refuge in thousands of government - built cyclone shelters, chiefly schools and other public buildings, made of concrete and other hard materials, and built upon 12 - 15 feet high concrete pillars.

You can easily make your selection from a portable dog kennel to a variety of large cyclone fence dog pens.

This means that even relatively small marine - protected areas could be effective in protecting the top - level predators and allowing coral reefs to more fully recover from coral bleaching or large cyclones which are increasing in frequency due to the warming of the oceans as a result of climate change.

This is a side - by - side view of large cyclones at the north (left) and south (right) poles of Saturn taken in June 2008 by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer onboard the Cassini spacecraft.

The largest cyclones are most affected by warmer conditions and we detect a statistically significant trend in the frequency of large surge events (roughly corresponding to tropical storm size) since 1923.

The poster planet for large cyclones is Jupiter.

A recent, peer - reviewed study published by several authors in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science concludes: «The largest cyclones are most affected by warmer conditions and we detect a statistically significant trend in the frequency of large surge events (roughly corresponding to tropical storm size) since 1923.»

Not exact matches

The Pilbara Ports Authority has begun clearing large vessels out of the ports of Dampier and Ashburton, ahead of a cyclone which is expected to hit the Pilbara coast by tomorrow morning.

Jupiter's atmosphere features colossal cyclones and rivers of ammonia welling up from deep inside the solar system's largest planet, researchers said on Thursday, publishing the first insights from a NASA spacecraft flying around the gas giant.

Shortly after the strongest tropical cyclone to ever make landfall struck the central Philippines we mounted our largest international relief operation in years.

The tropical cyclone study also used a model developed by Zurich - based Swiss Re, one of the world's largest providers of reinsurance.

Early science results from NASA's Juno mission portray the largest planet in our solar system as a turbulent world, with an intriguingly complex interior structure, energetic polar aurora, and huge polar cyclones.

16 The largest known tropical cyclone was 1979's typhoon Tip, which stretched 1,400 miles across the northwestern Pacific — the distance from Dallas to Washington, D.C.

In the case of Saturn, the planet's atmospheric conditions and storm activity are within the range that would generate a large polar cyclone.

Eventually, they observed that each thunderstorm essentially pulls air towards the poles — and together, these many small, isolated thunderstorms can accumulate enough atmospheric energy at the poles to generate a much larger and long - lived cyclone.

«The largest rainfall events, almost regardless of duration, are tied to tropical cyclones,» Villarini said.

The science team obtained vital information about the physical characteristics within one large warm - water eddy, which likely originated from the North Brazil Current, and analyzed its potential influence on sub-surface ocean conditions during the passage of tropical cyclones.

Although they cover a large area, martian cyclones appear extremely small from Earth; even Hubble can only see them when Mars is at opposition, its point of closest approach to our planet.

To project that trend forward, the team then used models recently developed to analyze Antarctic ice sheet collapse, plus large global data sets to tailor specific Atlantic tropical cyclone data and create «synthetic» storms to simulate future weather patterns.

Much larger eddies have been observed using satellites, but small cyclones have been very rarely measured, the researchers will report in an upcoming issue of Geophysical Research Letters.

Extreme weather like droughts and large tropical cyclones would become more common, fragile ecosystems like coral reefs would be at risk of destruction and polar ice melting would swamp many coastal cities over the next century.

Like a compact series of cogs in an unimaginably large machine, vast cyclones also swirl around the north and south poles, clocking wind speeds of over 220 miles per hour (350 kilometers per hour)-- wind speeds that are the equivalent of a terrestrial Category 5 hurricane.

These relationships have been reinforced by findings of a large increase in numbers and proportion of hurricanes reaching categories 4 and 5 globally since 1970 even as total number of cyclones and cyclone days decreased slightly in most basins.

Study co-author, James Cook University Professor Sean Connoly, from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE), said this will make it more difficult for larger systems to recover after cyclones and coral bleaching because fewer larvae will disperse from other reefs.

Potential Intensity, a theoretical framework of large - scale ocean - atmosphere processes, helps scientists forecast the power of a cyclone.

«We found that the biggest tropical cyclones tend to be larger, with a larger radius and maximum winds of these storms in the later anthropogenic time period,» Reed said.

They looked for such hurricanes in three different places: Tampa, because of its large population; Cairns, Australia, because it is in a cyclone - prone area and in the Southern Hemisphere; and the Persian Gulf, where no hurricane has ever been observed.

All four paintings are hung inside a large square of floor - to - ceiling cyclone - fencing cage — facing inward.

[W] e know that (i) the warming is likely in large part anthropogenic, and (ii) that the recent increases in TC [tropical cyclone] frequency are related to that warming.

More specifically, an anomalously large (small) AWP reduces (enhances) the vertical wind shear in the hurricane main development region and increases (decreases) the moist static instability of the troposphere, both of which favor (disfavor) Atlantic tropical cyclone activity.

4:38 p.m. Updated I read Mark Fischetti's piece on global warming and hurricanes in Scientific American just now, which points to a recent PNAS study finding «a statistically significant trend in the frequency of large surge events» from tropical cyclones in the Atlantic.

Last year the circulation pattern was such that a large trough over the eastern US enhanced the path of cyclones into Florida.

Tropical cyclones do act as a large mechanism for the transfer of heat, mass and momentum that can significantly impact on weather system thousands of kilometers away

Further complicating the use of these proxies is the fact that the deviation in oxygen - 18 ratios is affected by the amount of TC rainfall, the distance from the center of the cyclone at which the rain was produced, and the intensity of the cyclone — so I doubt these proxies alone will enable disentangling intensity and rainfall, tnough a large number of samples over an area could reveal information about the track and extent of the TC event.

This is because in the latter part of the time series there is a decrease in the total number of tropical cyclones, largely owing to a large multidecadal cyclone in the WPAC (which comprises 40 % of the global tropical cyclones), see Fig 3 in Webster et al..

I wonder if the fact the higher SSTs will lead to somewhat longer seasons (and 2005 certainly had that), and larger sea - surface area where TCs might form, would serve to counteract the effect you describe, and still lead, net - net, to an increase in the number of tropical cyclones with higher SSTs.

Indeed, the very strong interannual variability of global hurricane ACE (energy) highly correlated to ENSO, suggests that the role of tropical cyclones in climate is modulated very strongly by the big movers and shakers in large - scale, global climate.

However, we know what causes large - scale cyclones like hurricanes and typhoons: Heat.

The U.S. Climate Extremes Index (USCEI), an index that tracks the highest and lowest 10 percent of extremes in temperature, precipitation, drought and tropical cyclones across the contiguous U.S., was a record - large 44 percent during the January - June period, over twice the average value.

A recent study highlights results obtained from an aircraft ocean survey that targeted a large warm core eddy in the eastern Caribbean Sea, where upper ocean measurements are crucial to understanding the complexities of heat and moisture transfer during the passage of tropical cyclones.

As in the Jupiter simulation, coherent vortices (the largest being cyclones) are visibly in the polar regions.

Not with the legitimate concerns of society at large with the climate scientific enterprise and it's interwoven relationship with policy makers, but with guarding the reputations of the group of actors at the centre of the cyclone.

Large tropical storms, sometimes referred to collectively as tropical cyclones, have different names in different parts of the world.

Note that the geostrophic balance is thus very different from the case of «inertial motions» (see below), which explains why mid-latitude cyclones are larger by an order of magnitude than inertial circle flow would be.

Large amplitude fluctuations in the frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones greatly complicate both the detection of long - term trends and their attribution to rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases.

For all cyclone parameters, projected changes for individual basins show large variations between different modelling studies.

Three new peer reviewed studies, representing the large expanse of the Australia - Asia region, determined that cyclone and tropical storm occurrence has actually declined over modern era, post WWII.

The scientists say the largest increases in tropical cyclone potential intensity are expected to be at the margins of the tropics, particularly in the Atlantic and Pacific.

Moreover, the relative impact of an extreme event such as a tropical cyclone that can affect most of a small island's territory has a disproportionate impact on that state's GDP, compared to a larger country where an individual event generally affects a small proportion of its total territory and its GDP.

AIMS Scientist - in - charge in Western Australia Luke Smith said cyclone Fayâ $ ™ s powerful wind gusts uprooted many large coral colonies, and tore huge reef boulders up to five metres in diameter from the reefâ $ ™ s edge, and thrust them up the slope onto the reef flat.