Hurricanes

EurekAlert, 22 August 2018

In other media: Primeur Magazine, Diari de Girona

In a multi-national collaborative study published August 22, 2018 in Science Advances, climate simulations and subsequent analyses of tropical cyclone activity were led by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), the University of Melbourne and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).

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Ars Technica, 15 May 2018

In other media: Understanding Risk, Weather Underground

After the hyperactive 2017 Atlantic hurricane season—certainly the busiest and most destructive since at least 2005, and among the top five in the historical record—coastal residents in the United States, Caribbean Islands, and Mexico are understandably wary of what lies ahead. The Atlantic season officially begins this year on June 1.

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Phys.org, 22 September 2017

As residents in the Caribbean try to piece together their lives after being battered by two powerful hurricanes in a fortnight, scientists are working to find out if storms Irma and Maria are signs of what may come as the climate changes. The link between climate change and tropical hurricanes is a slippery one. While scientists broadly understand the natural mechanics that drive these cyclonic storms, accurately predicting what may happen on a warming planet is far harder.

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Scientific American, 25 May 2017

In other media: Cayman Compass, Inverse Science

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. June 1 marks the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season, which runs through the end of November. It’s a busy time for us at the Tropical Meteorology Project in Colorado State University’s Department of Atmospheric Science, where we are issuing our 34th annual Atlantic basin seasonal hurricane forecast. In early April we predicted a slightly below-normal hurricane season for 2017, with a total of 11 named storms (average is 12), four hurricanes (average is six) and two major hurricanes (average is two).

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Tiempo.com, 10 May 2017

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Con el inicio de la estación de huracanes en el Atlántico ya acercándose, la web seasonalhurricanepredictions.org reúne sus predicciones iniciales para 2017. Desarrollada por el Barcelona Supercomputing Center y la Universidad de Colorado State en asociación con la compañía de reaseguros XL Catlin, la web es la primera en agregar predicciones estacionales de los cerca de 20 principales centros especializados en predicción de huracanes en el Atlántico.

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