If you're more of a warm - weather traveler,
use hurricane season to your advantage.
Not exact matches
The 2017
hurricane season has highlighted the critical need to communicate a storm's impact path and intensity accurately, but new research from the University of Utah shows significant misunderstandings of the two most commonly
used storm forecast visualization methods.
The ACE index is
used to calculate the intensity of the
hurricane season and is a function of the wind speed and duration of each tropical cyclone.
Instead of
using candles, fill glass
hurricanes with sparkle this holiday
season.
Using «weather» (
hurricane season forecasts, for example) to demonstrate «climate change» can backfire, and I believe it has in this specific instance.
Our work is a «downscaling» study, in which we first simulate past
hurricane seasons,
using as input observed sea surface temperatures (SSTs), the observed state of the atmosphere at the boundaries of our Atlantic domain, as well as the largest scales in the atmospheric flow over the Atlantic.
If any tropical storms and subsequent
hurricanes form before the
season ends on Nov. 30, they will be classified
using the Greek alphabet, beginning with Alpha.
Hurricane season used to start in late August.
Accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) is a measure
used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to express the activity of individual tropical cyclones and entire tropical cyclone
seasons, * particularly the North Atlantic
hurricane season.
We note also that the climate skeptics are
using the mild
hurricane season as a way of attacking those fighting climate change.
As NOAA explains «The ACE index is
used to calculate the intensity of the
hurricane season and is a function of the wind speed and duration of each tropical cyclone.»
«Our results argue strongly against
using abnormally large losses from individual Atlantic
hurricanes or
seasons as either evidence of anthropogenic climate change or to justify actions on greenhouse gas emissions.
So as
hurricane season approaches, advocates for action on climate mitigation would be well served by playing to their strengths and avoiding
using hurricanes to promote their cause.
After testing the research model, the
Hurricane Center is now moving forward with an operational version of the upgraded HWRF model that will be used during the 2012 hurrican
Hurricane Center is now moving forward with an operational version of the upgraded HWRF model that will be
used during the 2012
hurricanehurricane season.
The scientists relied on the same model the National Weather Service
uses to predict
hurricane activity for a given
season.
The ACE index is also
used to define above -, near -, and below - normal
hurricane seasons (based on the 1981 to 2000 period).
Even after I added the 2005 data on category - 5
hurricanes, which they did not
use because the
season wasn't over yet, the quick regressions I ran didn't show any statistically significant increase in category - 5 storms.
Here tests for causality
using the global mean near - surface air temperature (GT) and Atlantic sea - surface temperature (SST) records during the Atlantic
hurricane season are applied.
GFDL's global models are
used to study the causes of annual variability and recent trends in
hurricane activity, as well as the predictability of the Atlantic
hurricane season.
First, the JMA definition of an ENSO year was
used, which breaks up a
hurricane season into 2 separate events, as described above.