Sentences with phrase «on hurricane formation»

There is a small influence on hurricane formation but there is no evidence that the NAO has long multi-decadal cycles (separate from a small forced response from the oceans or potentially from stratospheric processes)-- it is best characterised by slightly red noise.

And because it tends to ride dry desert air (duh), it can put a damper on hurricane formation.

Hurricanes are likely to become fewer in number, but fiercer in nature according to two recent studies assessing the impact of climate change on hurricane formation.

SST is not the only influence on hurricane formation.

A confluence of factors, including abundant sinking air and dry air, and possibly dust flowing out of North Africa's Sahara desert, kept a lid on hurricane formation in 2013, according to many cyclone experts.

Those patterns «have a very, very different impact on the tropical climate and, most important, on hurricane formation,» he says.

Not exact matches

Such polygonal formations have been observed in the center of major hurricanes on Earth, says Barbosa Aguiar, though they quickly dissipate.

El Niño is a key factor in making hurricane seasonal forecasts because the changes in atmospheric patterns over the tropical Pacific that it ushers in have a domino effect on patterns over the Atlantic, tending to suppress hurricane formation.

That doesn't mean more hurricanes everywhere, though: While El Niño tends to boost activity in the Pacific Ocean, it clamps down on storm formation in the tropical Atlantic.

In a TV program on climate change, Jeff Donnelly, a geologist using seabed layers to track past hurricanes, takes the actor Ian Somerhalder into the «Bue Hole» formation in the Bahamas.

Possibly, this forming El Nino also had an impact on formation of tropical storm systems in the Western Atlantic this past hurricane season.

It is my understanding that the formation of hurricanes is largely dependent on the presence of a baseline minimum (absolute) temperature.

The perceptible (and perhaps measurable) impact of global warming on hurricanes in today's climate is arguably a pittance (or noise) compared to the reorganization and modulation of hurricane formation locations and preferred tracks / intensification corridors dominated by ENSO (and other natural climate factors).