Sentences with phrase «lifetime maximum intensity»

However, using the CMIP3 and CMIP5 multi-model climate projections, the hurricane model also projects that the lifetime maximum intensity of Atlantic hurricanes will increase by about 5 % during the 21st century in general agreement with previous studies.

Hurricane lifetime maximum intensity in the North Atlantic, eastern and western North Pacific, and South Pacific Oceans (far right).

Dramatic changes in the frequency distribution of lifetime maximum intensity (LMI) have occurred in the North Atlantic, while smaller changes are evident in the South Pacific and South Indian Oceans, and the stronger hurricanes in all of these regions have become more intense.