Sentences with phrase «powerful cyclone»

this is a terrible tragedy for those in burma whose lives have been destroyed or otherwise directly affected by the ravages of this powerful cyclone.

NEW DELHI — The powerful cyclone that swept across parts of eastern India late last month severely damaged at least two major Indian laboratories.

A massive and powerful cyclone slammed into India's east coast on Saturday, sending nearly half a million people seeking shelter.

Fig. 1: Number of storms every 5 - year interval since 1850 divided in 6 different categories of severities, with «Tropical Storm» as the least and «Category 5» as the most powerful cyclones.

Stroeve says a couple of powerful cyclones that churned around the high Arctic last month moved sea ice around and complicated efforts to measure its extent.

Not exact matches

The storm has continued to grow increasingly powerful in a process called bombogenesis — known to some as a bomb cyclone — which occurs when a system's central air pressure drops 24 millibars in 24 hours.

Tropical cyclone Gonu in 2007 was the most powerful ever recorded in the Arabian Sea.

Powerful, destructive tropical cyclones are now reaching their peak intensity farther from the equator and closer to the poles, according to a new study co-authored by an MIT scientist.

These cyclones are characterized by strong localized drops in sea level pressure, and as Arctic - wide decreases in sea level pressure are one of the expected results of climate change, this could increase extreme Arctic cyclone activity, including powerful storms in the spring and fall.

Nowadays, there is a raging debate over whether climate change, and the overall rise in global temperature it is supposed to bring, will cause tropical cyclones to develop more often and become more powerful in the future.

A lighter roof that might fare better in a quake may fly off in a storm with powerful winds, like a tropical cyclone.

Tropical cyclones like Irene are predicted to be more powerful this year, thanks to natural conditions, but researchers disagree on how to rate that intensity

With winds over a punishing 300 kilometers per hour, Typhoon Haiyan, which ravaged the Philippines in early November, was the most powerful recorded cyclone that made landfall.

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Use these activities and Internet connections to engage students of all ages in a study of these powerful and frightening storms, which are called hurricanes, typhoons or cyclones depending on where they happen in the world.

In 2014 Hurricane Odile rewrote the record books, having become the most powerful tropical cyclone to ever make landfall on the Baja California peninsula.

Another improvement is in the way the plasmids are upgraded, in the first game they simply became more powerful, now they way they work is changed, for example a fully upgraded «incinerate» plasmid will have flames streaming from your fingertips, and an upgraded «cyclone trap» plasmid lets you combine it with other plasmids to create elemental storms.

Will climate change make tropical cyclones — known as hurricanes in the Atlantic basin — more frequent or powerful in the future?

LONDON, 16 July, 2016 — Powerful tropical storms − known variously as cyclones, typhoons and hurricanes − bring death and destruction to huge swathes of the Earth's surface.

The warmer the water, the more energy gets sucked in the air and the faster a tropical cyclone develops into a hurricane and the more powerful this hurricane can grow — other complex meteorological factors left aside.

AIMS Scientist - in - charge in Western Australia Luke Smith said cyclone Fayâ $ ™ s powerful wind gusts uprooted many large coral colonies, and tore huge reef boulders up to five metres in diameter from the reefâ $ ™ s edge, and thrust them up the slope onto the reef flat.

It is this extra energy released from the warm water freezing which turns an ordinary cyclone into a powerful tropical cyclone.

We suggest that the initial cyclone which leads to the more powerful tropical cyclone is actually formed much higher, i.e., at the tropopause, and that it is a result of multimerization.

Powerful tropical cyclones like the super typhoon that lashed Taiwan with 150 - mile - per - hour winds last week and then flooded parts of China are expected to become even stronger as the planet warms.

Add a four - month annual monsoon season and top off with a climate change - driven sea level rise and more frequent, powerful tropical cyclones, and you're looking at catastrophic flooding.

Super Typhoon Haiyan and Climate Change Given the strength and destruction of Haiyan, it was inevitable for discussions to arise about the relationship between the most powerful tropical cyclones and climate change.

Damage incurred by tropical cyclones is overwhelmingly and disproportionately incurred by the most powerful storms, indicating that overall damage will increase as the climate warms.