Sentences with phrase «many hurricane researchers»

«As a general comment they show a lack of appreciation for the physical scale of hurricanes and simple ignorance of how they work,» wrote Hugh Willoughby, a hurricane researcher at Florida International University, in an email.

«When we get a particularly bad storm, people often try and attribute it to something larger,» Jennifer Collins, a hurricane researcher at the University of South Florida, says.

Using records dating back to 1855, hurricane researchers say they have uncovered an ongoing rise in the number of Atlantic hurricanes that tracks the increase in sea surface temperature related to climate change.

That pairing marked another first; never before had two Category 3 storms been in that area at the same time, according to hurricane researcher and forecaster Phil Klotzbach of Colorado State University.

Those unexpectedly warm waters were what caused some of the seasonal forecasts to slightly underestimate the amount of storm activity in the Atlantic, Philip Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher and seasonal forecaster at Colorado State University, wrote at the Capital Weather Gang blog.

In his letter, Landsea refers to the large body of evidence (ie more than just one study) supporting the consensus among hurricane researchers that is there is no detectable human signal in the hurricane record.

University of Miami hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy figures that 75 to 80 percent of the devastation can be blamed on the human factor.

In November 2006, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) held a two week International Workshop on Tropical Cyclones (or hurricanes) where leading hurricane researchers wrote a Statement on Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change.

I've sent a query to some hurricane researchers to get a bit more on what, besides warm sea temperatures, makes conditions this ripe for powerful tropical storms.

The scientists were Peter C. Frumhoff, an ecologist who directs science and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Kerry Emanuel, a veteran climate and hurricane researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

There were at least several dozen additional scientists in attendance, said one attendee, Stanley B. Goldenberg, a hurricane researcher for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Miami whom I've interviewed in the past on Atlantic hurricane patterns.

Gerry Bell and Chris Landsea are NOAA hurricane researchers who have repeatedly emphasized natural «decadal» cycles not global warming as a cause of more powerful hurricanes.

An MIT hurricane researcher found his inbox flooded daily for two weeks last January with hate mail and threats directed at him and his wife.

Among those in attendance was Phil Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher at Colorado State University who now does much of the research for Bill Gray's seasonal hurricane predictions, the oldest and best - known annual forecast.

«From 1970 to 1995, there weren't that many hurricanes, and the ones we had were nice, well - mannered, housebroken hurricanes that stayed out to sea and didn't make a mess,» said Hugh Willoughby, a hurricane researcher at Florida International University in Miami.

Do hurricane researchers have any models, or direct methods, to measure how active a season may have been in, oh, say 1705, based on possible long duration climactic trends?

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Not exact matches

Some researchers warn a catastrophic cyber event triggering thousands of policy holders to file claims simultaneously could lead to insurers going bankrupt, like in 1992 after Hurricane Andrew, or require a federal bailout like in 2008.

And as Florida's state climatologist David Zierden, who is also a researcher at Florida State University, told me, «It's this continued development in vulnerable areas that's increasing our hurricane risk much more than climate change itself.»

And when talking about hurricanes, researchers are quite hesitant to even estimate how much climate change is to blame.

I tend to think of myself as someone who was involved in the effort to build a sense of community in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina through my work with the theater and the researchers at the University of Houston.

UAlbany researchers are helping the National Hurricane Center track Hurricane Irma and are creating forecast models to try and determine where the superstorm could make landfall.

«Scientists get early look at hurricane damage to Caribbean coral reefs: Storms act as an interesting «natural experiment» — a rare chance for researchers to study how corals recover from disasters.»

The researchers found that the proportion of rarer, strong hurricanes to commoner, weaker ones was always the same.

Those same colder waters weren't present in Superstorm Sandy, which occurred later in the hurricane season in 2012, the researchers noted.

Hurricane Katrina destroyed the habitat of breeding colonies in Louisiana's Pearl River Basin, for instance, but bird numbers held steady, researchers noted in the journal Forest Ecology and Management.

The meteorological community has proposed other ways of measuring hurricanes, but some researchers stand in staunch support of Saffir — Simpson.

But, currently, public warning researchers are each carving out little hazard niches (hurricanes, wildfires, hazmat), as well as single dimensions of the warning problem (timing them, delimiting risk zones, selecting protective actions).

Researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) now analyzed the magnitude of future hurricane losses in relation to economic growth.

Low rate of hurricane landfalls may not last Researchers say heavier downpours are already occurring in the United States.

In May, a team of researchers announced that hurricanes play an underappreciated role in how heat is regulated in the oceans.

Silver Award: Alex Kuffner The Providence Journal «Rising seas, rising stakes» Nov. 20, 2016 «Losing ground» March 19, 2017 «On the brink» July 9, 2017 Judges praised Alex Kuffner for his comprehensive look at the risks facing Rhode Island communities from either a once - in - a-century hurricane or a sea level rise of seven feet by the end of the century, as projected in a worst - case scenario by researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

But Hurricane Harvey is unlike any past test of the gulf's resilience, and researchers are jump - starting studies to document the aftermath, building on baseline data from existing research projects, some of which have been underway for decades.

New immersive environments are allowing researchers to visualize and study everything from brains to hurricanes with unprecedented detail and scale.

By comparing Twitter use in 50 cities in the United States, the researchers found that the closer the city was to the hurricane's path, the more storm - related tweets were sent in the period immediately before, during and after Sandy's big day, the researchers report March 11 in Science Advances.

Researchers still don't fully understand the small but important shifts in storm dynamics that trigger a tornado or hurricane, for instance, and they can't forecast a hurricane's intensity.

UF researchers used erosion data and post-storm nourishment strategies after hurricanes Ivan and Dennis and Tropical Storm Katrina struck the island, which is part of Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton Beach.

The researchers entered Tampa Bay area climate data recorded between 1980 and 2005 into their model and ran 7,000 simulated hurricanes in the area.

Using weather and sea data from the time of the sinking, along with a new theoretical model, a Georgia Institute of Technology researcher has calculated that there was as much as a one - in - 130 chance — over a period of time and area — that a rogue wave 46 feet high (14 meters) could have occurred during the hurricane.

What's more, whereas many models tend to overestimate the intensity of hurricanes in their predictions, theirs was a much closer match to historical observations, the researchers report online in Geophysical Research Letters.

If engineers were to spray about 10 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide droplets into the stratosphere each year between 2020 and 2070, the number of storm surge inundations produced by large hurricanes each year after 2070 drops by about half, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Previously, researchers thought rain in the eyewall increased a hurricane's intensity, as heat released from the condensing water added to the overall power of the storm.

More than two weeks after Hurricane Sandy, now that its floodwaters have receded and the region's utilities and transportation systems have largely been restored, researchers and authorities are beginning to look at Sandy's other effects.

Chris W. Landsea is a researcher at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory / Hurricane Research Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), located in Miami, Fla..

Researchers expected to find a 6 percent increase in Hurricane Harvey rainfall totals, but instead found that climate change increased those totals by at least 19 percent and as much as 38 percent.

The findings across three independent research papers show that human activity did increase the damage inflicted by Hurricane Harvey, said Michael Wehner, a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

In a new study published in the journal PLOS One, Jennifer Horney, PhD, associate professor and head of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Texas A&M School of Public Health, along with researchers from Texas A&M and the Pacific Northwest National Lab, examined concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) before and after Hurricane Harvey in the Houston environmental justice neighborhood of Manchester.

«High resolution gives us the ability to look at intense weather, like hurricanes,» said Kevin Reed, a researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and a co-author on the paper.

The researchers produced a modelling programme to simulate surges in the river's waters which played a role in floods in recent years, including the hurricane which swept Scotland in December 2011.

In the GRL study, researchers used a statistical model based on historical climate data to separate how much of the extreme rainfall from Hurricane Harvey was due to natural influences and how much was due to human influences.