Sentences with phrase «storm intensity»

It is not I who made the prediction and link between rising temperature and increase storm intensity and frequency.

There is no marked increase in storm intensity or frequency; there is no climate change signature on insurance claims.

This information is critical to understanding the depth of the spray layer above the ocean surface and the overall impact of spray on storm intensity.

Their hope is to improve storm intensity predictions for the future.

That may be partly due to rising storm intensity and rainfall, as the climate scientists argue.

That's because local increases in sea surface temperatures are more effective in fueling storm intensity than are planet - wide increases.

The multiple physical connections between lightning, convection, precipitation, and rapid storm intensity changes make lightning a rich source of information on how these storms evolve.

There is as yet no clear trend globally in storm intensity or frequency.

High temperatures are to blame for an increase in heat - related deaths and illness, rising seas, increased storm intensity, and many of the other dangerous consequences of climate change.

«Intensity of hurricanes: New study helps improve predictions of storm intensity.»

Globally, estimates of the potential destructiveness of hurricanes show a significant upward trend since the mid-1970s, with a trend towards longer lifetimes and greater storm intensity, and such trends are strongly correlated with tropical SST.

Scientists working to improve storm intensity forecasting have identified a more accurate means of predicting a hurricane's strength as it approaches landfall, using sea temperature readings that they say will help forecasters better prepare communities for storm impacts in the face of sea - level rise caused by rising global temperatures.

Almost all of 2017's ACE was crammed into an 8 - week period which truly smashed records for storm intensity / frequency.

So far, the results from climate models do not match the dramatic rise in storm intensity seen by Emanuel.

Hurricane - associated storm intensity and rainfall rates are projected to increase as the climate continues to warm.

Over the past 50 years there has been a strong statistical connection between tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures and Atlantic hurricane activity as measured by the Power Dissipation Index (which combines storm intensity, duration, and frequency).

There are better than even odds that anthropogenic warming over the next century will lead to an increase in the occurrence of very intense tropical cyclone in some basins — an increase that would be substantially larger in percentage terms than the 2 - 11 % increase in the average storm intensity.

Results suggest that progress in the prediction of TC tracks, particularly in the translation speed of storms, should lead to improved storm intensity prediction

«Over the past decade, we've partnered with NOAA scientists on projects ranging from ocean acidification, to measuring Arctic waves to collecting storm intensity data from the surface of the hurricane,» said Gary Gysin, President and CEO of Liquid Robotics.

Although it stands to reason that a warming climate could worsen storm intensity since a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, Henson cautioned, «Even when researchers find that a given type of disaster has become more likely, a rare event is still going to be rare — and it can occur without any help from greenhouse gases.»

Although that experiment suggested anomalous temperatures could have possibly increased storm intensity slightly, forecasting intensity is still fraught with problems due to the complex contributions from many other variables.

A new study analyzing storm intensity and impacts in the New York metro area aims to inform how communities can better prepare for winter storms and enhance resiliency as the effects of climate change exacerbate hazards.

At the cutting edge of climate research, scientists are also exploring how human - induced change may affect storm intensity and the winds that steer the hurricanes.

But Franklin said that in contrast to track forecasts, predicting storm intensity requires knowing lots of small - scale details that computer models have trouble capturing, from the dynamics of a storm's structure to the characteristics of air masses being pulled into a storm's circulation.

It observed that both particle sizes got completely suspended in the water column during the 24 - hour period of peak storm intensity.

The frequency of track overlaps is much lower in the Western Hemisphere than in the Eastern Hemisphere, however, a related map showing storm intensity seen here shows an interesting contrast.

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In a couple handfuls of words — influences related to human - caused climate change are spiking East Coast storm intensity while setting in place a general pattern that causes these storms to repeatedly fire.

I'm going to go out on a limb and forecast a period of declining tropical storm intensity in the Atlantic basin over the next few decades, with another peak just in time for me to be dead and buried.

Emanuel (1987); Emanuel (2005a), published 4 Aug., found that «longer storm lifetimes and greater storm intensities... correlated with [higher] sea surface temperatures.

Lightning is a measure of storm intensity, and the researchers detected the uptick in lightning at least as far back as 2005.

Heinselman and her team have demonstrated that phased - array radar can also gather storm information not currently available, such as fast changes in wind fields, which can precede rapid changes in storm intensity.

• Atlantic tropical cyclone (hurricane) activity, as measured by both frequency and the Power Dissipation Index (which combines storm intensity, duration, and frequency) has increased.

So while GHG levels have been greater than aerosol levels for many decades in terms of absolute magnitude, they have only recently overtaken the cooling effect of aerosols in terms of their influence on storm intensity.