September started with a typhoon that ripped through Hong Kong, uprooting trees and flooding the city. It was the first of a slew of extreme weather events that have hit ten countries and territories in just 12 days – the most catastrophic being the floods in Libya, which have killed more than 11,000 people according to the UN and left many thousands missing.
Hong Kong (CNN) September started with a typhoon that ripped through Hong Kong, uprooting trees and flooding the city. It was the first of a slew<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://wsvn.com/news/us-world/10-countries-and-territories-saw-severe-flooding-in-just-12-days-is-this-the-future-of-climate-change/">Read More</a>
Four tropical cyclones in the Pacific Ocean, Sept. 2015. (Photo credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project.)
Global warming will intensify landfalling tropical cyclones of a category three or higher in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, while suppressing the formation of weaker events. In Hawaiʻi, model simulations show a doubling of the risk of landfalling tropical cyclones, if
CO2 concentrations double. That’s according to a study published in
Malte Stuecker, assistant professor of oceanography in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (
SOEST).
Tropical cyclones, including typhoons and hurricanes, are the most fatal and costliest weather disasters on our planet. But how tropical cyclones will change in response to global warming has long remained a mystery.
University of Hawaiʻi
Four tropical cyclones in the Pacific Ocean, Sept. 2015. (Photo credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project.)
Global warming will intensify landfalling tropical cyclones of a category three or higher in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, while suppressing the formation of weaker events. In Hawaiʻi, model simulations show a doubling of the risk of landfalling tropical cyclones, if CO2 concentrations double. That’s according to a study published in Science Advances and co-authored by Malte Stuecker, assistant professor of oceanography in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST).
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IMAGE: Rainbands (white) of a tropical cyclone and related ocean cold wake (colored shading) simulated by the ultra-high resolution climate model simulation for present-day conditions (left). The simulation was conducted with. view more
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A study based on new high-resolution supercomputer simulations, published in this week s issue of the journal
Science Advances, reveals that global warming will intensify landfalling tropical cyclones of category 3 or higher in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, while suppressing the formation of weaker events.
Tropical cyclones (including typhoons and hurricanes), are the most fatal and costliest weather disasters on our planet. Millions of people are affected every year by the destructive power of these extreme weather systems, but how tropical cyclone properties - in particular in coastal areas - will change in response to global warming has long remained a mystery. To address this question, scientists for over two d