Not exact matches
These changes have been compounded
by stronger waves in the North Sea in recent decades, and could be further exacerbated if predictions that
storminess will increase with global warming prove accurate.
Alarmists have drawn some support for increased claims of tropical
storminess from a casual claim
by Sir John Houghton of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that a warmer world would have more evaporation, with latent heat providing more energy for disturbances.
Although Holocene climate events are relatively minor on a glacial / interglacial perspective, the small Holocene changes in the polar vortex and atmospheric
storminess documented
by O'Brien et al. (1995) would probably cause widespread disruption to human society if they were to occur in the future (Keigwin and Boyle 2000:1343).»
And if we had warming, it should be accomplished
by less
storminess.
However, with recent developments in modelling approaches and computational resources examining the potential impacts of changes in
storminess has become feasible, as exemplified
by studies of Muis et al (2016), who used the first dynamic global storm surge model to simulate past water levels for the global coast, or Vousdoukas et al (2016), who simulated future storm surge changes along the entire European coast.
What the models indicate is that in the absence of glacial ice collapses,
storminess (as indicated
by kinetic energy) decreases.
An impact that is, ironically, driven both
by Antarctic continental ice melt together with an increasing
storminess in the Southern Ocean and waters more heavily laden with salt issuing from the equatorial zone.
Storminess is indicated
by variations in the minerogenic content as well as bromine deposited from sea spray.
We suggest that the long - term trends in
storminess were caused
by insolation changes, while oceanic forcing may have influenced millennial variability.
David A. «If oceanic storms are created
by the equatorial - polar temperature gradient, wouldn't one expect a decrease in
storminess?»
If oceanic storms are created
by the equatorial - polar temperature gradient, wouldn't one expect a decrease in
storminess?
The original claims of increased
storminess and severe weather made
by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are scientifically incorrect.
Increasing
storminess in the Arctic, predicted
by some climate models, would speed up the release of methane, she says.
A possible connection between cosmic rays and clouds was already established at the end of the 19th century
by the inventor of the cloud chamber, Wilson (1899); it was admittedly «speculation» that ionization in the upper troposphere affected
storminess.
They found no long - term trend during the last 100 years, but a clear rise since a minimum of
storminess in the 1960s, which is consistent with the rise in extreme geostrophic wind found
by Jones et al. (1999c).