Sentences with phrase «national hurricane research»

The need for increased hurricane research is outlined in a report from the National Research Council in January that argues for a sustained, coordinated national hurricane research initiative.

The US Senate is considering a bill that would direct NOAA and the National Science Foundation to initiate a national hurricane research initiative.

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Not exact matches

The National Center for Atmospheric Research has a hurricane severity scale that factors in wind speed, hurricane size, and forward speed (whether it stalls or not) to rate the potential destructiveness of a storm 1 - to - 10 scale.

«Overall, it appears global warming might not affect the strengths of most hurricanes,» says meteorologist Chris Landsea of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Research Division in Miami, Florida.

«Even if we take the extreme of these error estimates, we are left with a significant trend since 1890 and a significant trend in major hurricanes starting anytime before 1920,» say atmospheric scientists Greg Holland of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., and Peter Webster of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

Marks, now director of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Research Division in Miami, Florida, recalls the frantic hour he spent attempting to repair the plane before somehow managing to land.

Dropped from a plane, it slowly descends through the core of a storm, transmitting real - time data to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Research Division.

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..

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.

The two papers released yesterday follow research published last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that found that human activity could make another Hurricane Harvey far more likely.

«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.

Back in 2006, after the devastation following Hurricane Katrina the National Science Board called for an increase of $ 300 million in hurricane research funding Hurricane Katrina the National Science Board called for an increase of $ 300 million in hurricane research funding hurricane research funding per year.

Part of the difficulty is «miserable» global historical hurricane records, says Prof Kevin Trenberth from the US National Center for Atmospheric Research.

These outlooks are a collaborative effort from scientists at the NOAA Climate Prediction Center, NOAA Hurricane Research Division and NOAA National Hurricane Center.

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Indeed, in the case of Hurricane Sandy, any role for greenhouse gases was a background influence, even according to Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, who's been one of the most vocal scientists using extreme weather to make a case for emissions action.

«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.

Atmospheric scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said, «It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don't buy into anthropogenic global warming.»

Separate research out of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that, thanks to climate change, the amount of precipitation caused by the hurricane could have been nearly 40 percent higher than expected.

Closed - minded skeptics point to higher uncertainty and the small degree of confidence that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) and UCAR (Unversity Corporation for Atmospheric Research) that tornadoes and hurricanes has or will become more intense with climate change.

Last week, however, the National Hurricane Center's director publicly chided his bosses at NOAA headquarters in Washington for cutting the National Weather Service's research budget.

As Greg Holland of the National Center for Atmospheric Research explained, «If you take the last 10 years, we've had twice the number of category - 5 hurricanes than any other [10 - year period] on record.»

Global warming accounted for around half of the extra hurricane - fueling warmth in the waters of the tropical North Atlantic in 2005, while natural cycles were only a minor factor, according to a new analysis from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

A study from the National Center for Atmospheric Research also predicts that warmer oceanic and atmospheric temperature caused by climate change will produce even fiercer hurricanes in the future.

According to research from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atlantic hurricanes are intensifying much more rapidly than they did 30 years ago, thanks, in part, to warming oceans.

Kevin Trenberth, the head of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), believes the new study's main finding is accurate, but thinks the effects of some of the environmental factors on hurricane intensity might have been underestimated.

In fact, a June 27 study by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) supported the link Gore suggested between global warming and the strong 2005 North Atlantic hurricane season.

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The divergent findings, says hurricane expert Greg Holland of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, «indicate that care needs to be taken in being too explicit with climate predictions of changes in tropical cyclone frequency at this stage.»

For now, about 200 mph is the highest that hurricane winds can theoretically get — and only three land - falling storms have come close in the past century, said Mark DeMaria, a research meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Ft. Collins, Colo..

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Administration, the top ten countries with the most hurricane strikes since 1970 are the following: