Sentences with phrase «of hurricane activity»

If not, then dust levels is not an effect of hurricane activity.
However, he adds, the long - term ocean warming should raise the baseline of hurricane activity.
Direct model simulations of hurricane activity under climate change scenarios offer another perspective on the problem.
The samples gathered in 2001 from a region of woods near Valdosta, Ga., have yielded a record of hurricane activity reaching back 220 years.
We can expect ongoing high levels of hurricane activity — and very importantly high levels of hurricane landfalls — as long as the active era continues.»
All of these numbers tell a very simple story: just as there are active periods of hurricane activity around the globe, there are inactive periods, and we are currently experiencing one of the most impressive inactive periods, now for almost 3 years.
The team reconstructed 220 years of hurricane activity in the area around southern Georgia, representing storms that struck anywhere from the adjacent gulf to South Carolina.
«The increased activity since 1995 is due to natural fluctuations (and) cycles of hurricane activity driven by the Atlantic Ocean itself along with the atmosphere above it and not enhanced substantially by global warming,» he testified.
More generally, what sort of hurricane activity should the Gulf Coast and the East Coast of the United States expect in the years ahead?
Specifically with regards to the energy and power companies, these contracts are for medium - range (days to weeks) forecasts of hurricane activity and landfall impacts, and also energy demand (temperature).
They found that averaged sea surface temperatures over the MDR are the best predictor of Atlantic cyclone activity, followed by global average surface temperature, with MDR warming relative to the tropics being the worst predictor of hurricane activity (Figure 1).
Hurricane season is officially from June to October, although the end of the season sees the highest chance of hurricane activity.
A 1,000 - year, annually - resolved record of hurricane activity from Boston, Massachusetts.
IER (7/15/13) reports: «The Institute for Energy Research compared the impacts of hurricane activity and the Obama Administration's oil policies on production in the offshore Gulf of Mexico to see which has the larger and more lasting -LSB-...]
Records of hurricane activity worldwide show an upswing of both the maximum wind speed in and the duration of hurricanes.
A new focused effort by a team of researchers analyzed 26 decades of hurricane activity, covering the end of the Little Ice Age (LIA) through 2012 for the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico water regions.
Our more recent late 21st century projections of hurricane activity continue to support the notion of increased intensity (~ 4 %) and near - storm rainfall rates (~ 10 to 15 %) for the Atlantic basin (Knutson et al. 2013) as well as for most other tropical cyclone basins (Knutson et al. 2015).
There has been no detectable long - term trend in the number and intensity of hurricane activity globally.
Animations showing the development and evolution of hurricane activity in the model are available here.
As the Atlantic waters get warmer, the frequency of hurricane activity increases.
I'm interested in how a long duration model of hurricane activity could show increases and decreases in hurricane strength, frequency and size, which could give a more clear image of how much GW is calling the shots, so to speak.
Of particular note, among other things, is dropping any mention that the present high level of hurricane activity is thought to be «cyclic» through history.
In addition, although they have shown a correlation between their surge index and measures of hurricane activity, it is far from a 1:1 relationship (correlations of 0.5 - 0.6 indicate that this index shares about 25 - 36 % of its variance with direct hurricane measures, leaving over 60 % to be explained).
«The bottom line is that we are in an unusually active period of hurricane activity, as a result of a combination of natural variability and global warming,» Dr. Curry said.
Let's watch the next 10 years of hurricane activity (and typhoon activity in Asia) and see what scientists come up with then.
, what sort of hurricane activity should the Gulf Coast and the East Coast of the United States expect in the years ahead?
An alternative hypothesis is that the reduction in sunlight beneath the dust layer cools the ocean surface, whose temperature is a well - known predictor of hurricane activity (at least at the basin scale).
September 18, 2006, Tree Rings Extend Record of Hurricane Activity, by JR Minkel.
Emanuel found a close correlation between increases in this measure of hurricane activity (which is likely a better measure of the destructive potential of the storms than previously used measures) and rising tropical North Atlantic SST, consistent with basic theoretical expectations.
In addition, a paper published just last month, used records of storm surges going back to 1923 as a measure of hurricane activity.
This new empirical study presents the evidence from the last 260 years of hurricane activity and the result is irrefutable as the adjacent chart reveals.
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