Sentences with phrase «tropical meteorology»
Tropical meteorology refers to the study and understanding of weather patterns, atmospheric conditions, and climate phenomena that occur in the tropical regions of the Earth. This field focuses on the weather systems and climate characteristics specific to areas near the equator, where tropical storms, hurricanes, and monsoons often develop. Full definition
«There is no other phenomenon that can influence the monsoons like El Niño,» says Krishna Kumar of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune.
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For that reason, the Colorado State University Tropical Meteorology Project, which forecasts hurricane seasons, predicted that 2011 would be a busy one.
Tallahassee, FL About Blog Levi Cowan is a masters student in tropical meteorology at Florida State University.
The Indian Institute for Tropical Meteorology, which has a centre for climate change, has found that monsoon rainfall has reduced in states such as Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala whereas it has increased in Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Jammu amd Kashmir.
Dr. Christopher Landsea — past chairman of the American Meteorological Society's Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones — says «there are no known scientific studies that show a conclusive physical link between global warming and observed hurricane frequency and intensity.»
Since joining UW in 1972, Houze has built a career on changing and improving how the community understands areas such as tropical meteorology, precipitation processes, and cloud dynamics.
It's that combination of nature and man,» said M.I.T. tropical meteorology professor Kerry Emanuel.
«We're trying to assess the impacts of climate change on the regional climate and on the monsoons,» Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology monsoon researcher Raghavan Krishnan told Grist.
(I like warm weather; it's not an accident that most of my research over my career to date has been about tropical meteorology.)
His career in tropical meteorology has included forecasting, teaching, research, and community service, including serving on a number of committees and review boards for NOAA, the National Academies and NASA, and chairing the Tropical Meteorological Program of WMO.
But please do not expect complete adherence to your reanalysis just because of your expertise anymore than I expect adherence to the conclusions in WHCC because I have written a lot of papers on tropical meteorology and climate.
The fog mingled with high pollution was an extreme event «when the air quality goes from very poor to dangerous,» said Gufran Beig, a scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology.
Pressure and wind speed have been used interchangeably to estimate potential damage from hurricanes for years, but the relationship between them has been a long - standing riddle in tropical meteorology.
There are a number of signals that point to the chance for an above - average hurricane season, said Philip Klotzbach, a scientist who creates hurricane forecasts for the Tropical Meteorology Project at Colorado State University.
More than two decades ago, as professor of atmospheric science and head of the Tropical Meteorology Project at Colorado State University, he pioneered the science of hurricane forecasting.
The rainfall patterns reconstructed from the 2009 snail shells have «good consistency with rainfall,» said Anant Parekh of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India, who did not participate in the project.
Incidentally, Revkin's conclusions are in direct conflict with what Greg Holland, a division director at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, said at yesterday's American Meteorological Society's 27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology in Monterey, California on Monday (April 24): that the wind and warmer water conditions that fuel storms that form in the Caribbean are «increasingly due to greenhouse gases.
I would also note that one of my proposed bets is a «charity» bet where all proceeds go to the charity of the winner's choice, and your choice could easily be your Tropical Meteorology Project.
William M. Gray, PhD, Professor Emeritus (Dept. of Atmospheric Science), Colorado State University, Head of the Tropical Meteorology Project, Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.A.
Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Miami, May 3 - 7, 2004.
The study — conducted by around 250 scientists from more than 20 institutes like the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, National Institute of Oceanography, IIT and JNU — has predicted that the annual rainfall in the region is likely to vary between 1,268 mm (with an error margin of 225.2 mm) and 1,604 mm (error margin of 175.2 mm) in the 2030s.
Understanding the various sources of heating in the atmosphere, like convection and radiation, is critically important in Tropical meteorology.
William Gray, hurricane expert and head of the Tropical Meteorology Project at Colorado State University, in a 2005 interview with Discover magazine:
R Krishnan's group at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune is leading the South Asia component of the World Climate Research Programme's Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) to help develop more - reliable regional climate change models that contribute to the climate research community's understanding of regional climate and monsoon issues under a changing climate, beyond AR5.
«This year's monsoon behaviour can not yet be attributed to climate change as it is still within the observed natural variability of the monsoon,» said Krishna Kumar Kanikicharla, a scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology.
The rainfall patterns reconstructed from the 2009 snail shells have «good consistency with rainfall,» said Anant Parekh of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India, who did not participate in the project.
William M. Gray, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University and Head of the Tropical Meteorology Project
Scientists at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) in Pashan, Pune, in a research paper published in Climate Dynamics last May, had dwelt upon the increase in frequency of winter precipitation (snow or rain) owing to the western disturbances (WDs).
His career in tropical meteorology has included forecasting, teaching, research, and community service, including serving on a number of committees and review boards for NOAA, the National Academies and NASA, and chairing the Tropical Meteorological Program of WMO.
Surprisingly, again, very recent research by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) has found that Mumbai is exposed to more ultraviolet (UV) radiation than the capital.