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X-Pages and Composition Notebook

Class Notes

Research Notes

Google Research Article

https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/

  • Since 1800s temperature has raised by .8-1.3 degrees Celsius because of humans

  • Since 1880 the sea level has risen about 9 inches

  • Tropical cyclones/hurricanes are expected to become more frequent and more intense with stronger winds, more rain and less marsh land to protect cities

  • The number of category 4-5 hurricanes are expected to increase

  • In 2100 hundred hurricanes intensity is expected to be 11% higher

  • In the 1980s there was an average of about 7 tropical storms/hurricanes per year and there is now an average of about 10 tropical storms/hurricanes per year in the Atlantic

  • All of this information can be gathered through storm data, but "There is no strong evidence of increasing trends in U.S. landfalling hurricanes or major hurricanes, or of Atlantic basin-wide hurricanes or major hurricanes since the late 1800s."

Journal Article Notes

Elsner, James B., et al. “High-Frequency Variability in Hurricane Power Dissipation and Its Relationship to Global Temperature.” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 87, no. 6, 2006, pp. 763–68, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26217182. Accessed 26 Apr. 2022.

  • Studies  indicate that hurricane intensity should and is increasing with rising global mean temperature.

  • Atlantic sea and air temperatures have risen

  • PDI (Power dissipation index) takes into account the frequency, strength,

and duration of tropical cyclones

  • Since 1958 temperatures have increased by .09 degrees Celsius

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