Sentences with phrase «storm strength»

Are there regular cycles to tropical storm strength, and how does this affect your answer?

Low air pressure in the core — a measure of storm strength — bottomed out at 879 millibars, making Patricia, officially, the most powerful hurricane ever measured in the western hemisphere.

There is no scientific basis for thinking that an increasing storm strength trend would limit itself permanently to cat 4s, and as noted below a good basis for thinking otherwise.

Tselioudis, G., and W.B. Rossow, 2006: Climate feedback implied by observed radiation and precipitation changes with midlatitude storm strength and frequency.

It will also be interesting to see plaintiffs explain this graph of accumulated cyclone energy in the light of their theory that man - made global warming is increasing hurricane strengths and frequencies (ACE is a sort of integration of hurricane and tropical storm strengths over time).

This brings us to your next argument: «There is no scientific basis for thinking that an increasing storm strength trend would limit itself permanently to cat 4s, and as noted below a good basis for thinking otherwise.»

NOAA's storm survey crews hope to issue a final storm strength rating today for the Joplin tornado.

The storm only briefly hit tropical storm strength on Saturday as it came ashore from the Pacific Ocean over the weekend, but the death toll had risen to 115 at last count.

3:50 p.m. Updated Hurricane Irene «s predicted track, and rainfall potential, have some similarity to those of Hurricane Floyd, which dumped devastating amounts of rain in the Northeast in 1999 after it weakened to tropical storm strength following landfall near Cape Fear, N.C.

Climate scientist Kerry Emanuel describes physics behind expected increase in storm strength due to climate change.

Moreover, damage escalates exponentially when storm strength crosses over the thresholds beyond which threatened infrastructure collapses.

There is no appreciable long - term variation of the total number of tropical storm strength cyclones observed in the north Indian, south - west Indian and south - west Pacific Oceans east of 160 ° E. (Neumann, 1993; Lander and Guard, 1998).

Tselioudis, G., and W.B. Rossow, 2006: Climate feedback implied by observed radiation and precipitation changes with midlatitude storm strength and frequency.

The ACE index (see Box 3.5), is essentially a wind energy index, defined as the sum of the squares of the estimated six - hour maximum sustained wind speed (knots) for all named systems while they are at least tropical storm strength.

There is, however, limited evidence from a relatively short time period that storm strength is increasing, such as the Emanuel (2005) «power dissipation index» of hurricane intensity.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center in May projected between a dozen and 16 named storms, including 2 to 5 major hurricanes (those above Category 3 on the Saffir - Simpson scale of storm strength).

In the meantime, keep a weather eye on the Web site of the National Hurricane Center and Kerry Emanuel's page at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which collects a variety of forecasts of storm strengths and tracks.

Emanuel's finding defies existing models for measuring storm strength.

Computer models that simulate the physics of tropical cyclones suggest that this difference should increase as the climate and sea surface temperatures warm, and that storm strength should increase with it.

Remember, life lost in a hurricane correlates much higher with poverty in the area the hurricane hit rather than with storm strength, as demonstrated by recent cyclones in Asia.

Storm strength is determined by wind speed, which is largely influenced by pressure and temperature gradients.

Last thought for a while — is the observed increase in the height of the troposphere a measure of storm strength?