Reconstructed centennial variability of Late Holocene
storminess from Cors Fochno, Wales, UK Future anthropogenic climate forcing is forecast to increase storm intensity and frequency over Northern Europe, due to a northward shift of the storm tracks, and a positive North Atlantic Oscillation.
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.
Not exact matches
This is an excerpt
from «Millennial - scale
storminess variability in the northeastern United States during the Holocene epoch,» the 2002 paper using lake - bed sediment cores
from around the Northeast to generate a Holocene history of
storminess:
Brian McNoldy, a meteorologist tracking Atlantic Ocean hurricanes at Colorado State University, just distributed this note
from Phil Klotzbach, a colleague, about the unusual
storminess in the Atlantic and Caribbean at the moment:
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 recent coastal dune building
from c.ad 1100 until now, despite a sea level close to present and continuously rising, may be a direct consequence of the restoration of beaches after periods of recurrent
storminess.
Here we present a decadal - resolution record of
storminess covering the Late Holocene, based on a 4 - m - long core taken
from the peat bog of Cors Fochno in mid-Wales, UK.
The period as described in the BOOTY site
from the mid 12th century though the 13th century and into the first third of the 14th century was incredibly variable and extreme in
storminess, cold, heat, rainfall and drought and the consequent severe famine and disease.
«The authors write that «the Mediterranean region is one of the world's most vulnerable areas with respect to global warming,»... they thus consider it to be extremely important to determine what impact further temperature increases might have on the
storminess of the region... produced a high - resolution record of paleostorm events along the French Mediterranean coast over the past 7000 years...
from the sediment bed of Pierre Blanche Lagoon [near Montpellier, France]... nine French scientists, as they describe it, «recorded seven periods of increased storm activity at 6300 - 6100, 5650 - 5400, 4400 - 4050, 3650 - 3200, 2800 - 2600, 1950 - 1400, and 400 - 50 cal yr BP,» the latter of which intervals they associate with the Little Ice Age.
The NAO's prominent upward trend
from the 1950s to the 1990s caused large regional changes in air temperature, precipitation, wind and
storminess, with accompanying impacts on marine and terrestrial ecosystems, and contributed to the accelerated rise in global mean surface temperature (e.g., Hurrell 1996; Ottersen et al. 2001; Thompson et al. 2000; Visbeck et al. 2003; Stenseth et al. 2003).
The
storminess index went
from 6.5 to 14 during the LIA.
«Perhaps this little period of
storminess actually prevented us
from getting a new record this year,» Screen said.
Meanwhile, those concerned «global warming» is increasing
storminess might like to access The Storminess Record From Armagh Observatory, Northern Ireland, 1796 - 2002 (her
storminess might like to access The
Storminess Record From Armagh Observatory, Northern Ireland, 1796 - 2002 (her
Storminess Record
From Armagh Observatory, Northern Ireland, 1796 - 2002 (here for the.
From the available literature it appears uncertain at this stage whether climate change effects will significantly strengthen or reduce the Rossouw and Theron: Port and maritime climate change impacts — SA coast Agulhas current (or increase
storminess off the SA southeast coast), and thereby reduce or increase the risk «freak» waves pose to shipping.»