Sentences with phrase «stronger cyclones»
"Stronger cyclones" refers to the idea that cyclonic storms, such as hurricanes or typhoons, are becoming more intense and powerful. Full definition
They also found that an increase of 1 ° C in surface sea temperatures corresponds to an increase in the number of strong cyclones by as much as 30 percent per year.
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«If what we know about Jupiter currently is correct, we predict that we won't see these wildly strong cyclones,» O'Neill says.
Two very strong cyclones entered the central Arctic Ocean in August from along the Siberian coast, bringing strong winds.
However, as this paper shows, all things being equal, warming water means stronger cyclones at the top of the scale.
What global warming does is create conditions that potentially allow strong cyclones to grow even more in strength.
Correlation does not mean causation, of course, but warmer waters generating stronger cyclones is a fundamental aspect of cyclone physics.
As NOAA notes, there the «strongest cyclones seem to group near the Philippines.»
So the problem is most likely something to do with a greater number of particularly Strong Cyclones, which appears to be the same thing which has been warming the high Arctic all winter.
The journals Nature and Science published papers last year showing that the number of strong cyclones (categories four and five) had doubled in recent decades.
«This mechanism means that little thunderstorms — fast, abundant, but not very strong thunderstorms — over a long period of time can actually accumulate so much angular momentum right on the pole, that you get a permanent, wildly strong cyclone.»
Two U.N. reports this month said greenhouse gases had reached record levels in the atmosphere and a warming world would likely bring more floods, stronger cyclones and more intense droughts.
For example, when Typhoon Haiyan — one of the strongest cyclones on record — devastated the central Philippine city of Tacloban in 2013, survivors were stranded for weeks in hard - to - reach areas.
Can you not see that it is one thing to attribute a cyclone to climate change and quite another to suggest that such a strong cyclone coupled with a strong tidal surge could be part of a trend that is quite credible (though perhaps not 100 % established) based on scientific evidence?
The NWS predicted a strong cyclone moving up the coast and they were right.
We find significant upward trends for wind speed quantiles above the 70th percentile, with trends as high as 0.3 ± 0.09 m s - 1 y - 1 (s.e.) for the strongest cyclones.
It turns out a 2008 paper shows that the strongest cyclones have an increased maximum wind speed over the past few decades due to warming waters.
Hundreds of millions of people in urban areas across the world will be affected by rising sea levels, increased precipitation, inland floods, more frequent and stronger cyclones and storms, and periods of more extreme heat and cold.
They found that in the strongest cyclones, the maximum wind speeds have risen by about 29 kilometers per hour (18 mph) over the period of 1981 — 2006, a substantial amount.
After I posted my article, climatologist Michael Mann pointed out a paper written in 2008 that does in fact show that top wind speeds in the strongest cyclones have increased in recent times.
But these stronger cyclones will greatly increase coastal inundation, coral damage, property damage and beach erosion.