A group of investigators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, says that tropical cyclones will become more intense by 2100, even if climate change is stopped dead in its tracks right now. At the same time, the storms will affect areas that are now considered safe.
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17 January 2012
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An international collaboration of investigators has recently established that excessive pollution released over the Indian Ocean is directly tied to an increase in the intensity of tropical cyclones affecting the Arabian Sea. The link was proposed long ago, but insufficient evidences existed to demonstrate it.
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29 November 2011
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Data collected by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) indicates that this year's Atlantic hurricane season may exhibit an above-average level of activity. This means that authorities in disaster-prone areas should prepare for what's in store for them.
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21 May 2011
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Investigators have recently determined that climate change is also exerting its influence on the way tropical cyclones develop, by modifying the mean temperatures of the oceans. This means that the threshold future storms need to reach in order to develop is moving up on the temperature scale. Hurricanes, tropical st... |
11 November 2010
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Hurricane Earl, currently a Category Four storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, has recently been imaged by a collaboration of American researchers, which includes scientists from NASA and NOAA.The experts are very interested in how this tropical cyclone will develop over the next few days, considering that the peak of ... |
2 September 2010
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