Sentences with phrase «strong hurricane events»

The idea is that surges in sea level recorded at tide gauge stations can tell us about strong hurricane events.

Not exact matches

«The historical long - term perspective reveals that we are at a watershed moment in human history right now: adaptation — to climate change or increasing / stronger extreme events such as hurricanes — has turned from a contingent and drawn out historical process into an imperative, a prescriptive policy, almost,» said Prof. Rohland.

Strong El Niño events and wind shear typically suppress the development of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says.

Many theorize that a warmer world would have more frequent and stronger «extreme» weather events, but they are not referring to temperature (instead: preciptation, tornado, hurricane, etc).

Many theorize that a warmer world would have more frequent and stronger «extreme» weather events, but they are not referring to temperature (instead: preciptation, tornado, hurricane, etc).

The trait, he proposed, comes to the surface when such people confront strong messaging on the need for emissions reductions amid enduringly murky science on what's driving some particular extreme environmental phenomenon in the world — whether a brief period of widespread melting on the Greenland ice sheet, a potent drought, a tornado outbreak or the extreme event of the moment, the hybrid nor» easter / hurricane known on Twitter as #Frankenstorm.

While assessing flood - control measures before Hurricane Katrina, scientists used a model storm that included data from decades of past events, but that intentionally left out data for two of the strongest storms (Hurricane Camille of 1969 and the Keys Storm of 1935) because they were not judged «reasonably characteristic of the Gulf.»

The first thorough federal review of research on how global warming may affect extreme climate events in North America forecasts more drenching rains, parching droughts (especially in the Southwest), intense heat waves and stronger hurricanes if long - lived greenhouse gases continue building in the atmosphere.

But what is the likelihood of more events such as stronger thunderstorms and hurricanes as surface temperatures rise?

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Had these tides coincided with a strong Nor» easter or a Hurricane, what we'd be looking at is a level of flooding that would almost certainly have exceeded the worst such events ever to strike the US East Coast.

This result means more than a doubling of strong hurricanes for every °C of warming, similar to that of Grinsted et al. (2 — 7 times more Katrina - like events), though a bit lower.

That 5 years after Hurricane Katrina the main meteorological group is saying that they do not detect a change in the number of hurricanes is strong evidence that Hurricane Katrina was a totally natural event.

Although the connection between greenhouse gas emissions and the strong hurricanes of 2005 continues to be debated, the events put a focus on efforts to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.

He also said the ongoing strong El Niño event in the Pacific Ocean may have influenced the storm track of this storm as well as the extra heat present in the Atlantic, since the Atlantic tends to have less active hurricane seasons and winter storm seasons during El Niños, allowing warm water anomalies to persist.

[Response: This is just two bits of speculation on my part, but it is conceivable that a) the influence of ENSO is of a different character than the influence from SST (i.e. there is more happening than a similar increase in hurricane intensity / number), and ii) the different frequency distribution of ENSO events compared to variations in SST (or PDI) mean that the signal is stronger compared to the noise in that frequency band.

Earlier events lack reliable data on the strong inner core of the hurricanes.