Re: Harvey Energy Into Atmosphere Matched Energy From Ocean
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Chris in Tampa on 5/10/2018, 4:31 pm
And also from that:
During the 2017 hurricane season, Harvey, Irma, Jose and Maria all underwent what is known as 'rapid intensification.'"
"A study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters found that the magnitude of these rapid intensification events increased from 1986 to 2015 in the central and eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean.
From 1986 to 2000, the average storm that rapidly intensified saw its peak winds increase by 32 mph in 24 hours, but the increase was 36 mph in 24 hours from 2001 to 2015.
The study analysis did not detect a trend in these events in the western tropical Atlantic, which includes the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico."
I think climate change impacts in the Atlantic might be a little more complex than other basins. Some areas will experience things getting more worse than other areas over time. Maybe rain will be worse most everywhere. Maybe stronger storms can make it further up the Atlantic coast more often. I think it's hard to know what areas will be impacted worse over time compared to others. For other basins, I think it's a bit more clear that warmer water means more storms that are worse. I think the Atlantic is just more complicated due to more complex patterns, like winds off South America for example. There is also so much coastline and impacts vary greatly already along it and adding in additional climate impacts makes it much harder to try to guess which areas might get hit more or less, harder or not as hard. |
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