Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 419 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Detection and attribution of climate change effects on tropical cyclones / Kevin Walsh, David Karoly, and Neville Nicholls -- Electrification in hurricanes : implications for water vapor in the tropical tropopause layer / Jasna V. Pittman [and others] -- Long-term natural variability of tropical cyclones in Australia / Jonathan Nott -- Statistical link between United States tropical cyclone activity and the solar cycle / James B. Elsner and Thomas H. Jagger -- Five year prediction of the number of hurricanes that make United States landfall / Stephen Jewson [and others] -- A new index for tropical cyclone development from sea surface temperature and evaporation fields / John A.T. Bye, Wenju Cai, and Tim Cowan -- Probability of hurricane intensification and United States hurricane landfall under conditions of elevated Atlantic sea surface temperatures / Peter S. Dailey [and others] -- Wavelet-lag regression analysis of Atlantic tropical cyclones / John Moore, Aslak Grinsted, and Svetlana Jevrejeva -- Network analysis of U.S. hurricanes / Emily A. Fogarty [and others] -- Migration of the tropical cyclone zone throughout the Holocene / Terrence A. McCloskey and Jason T. Knowles -- Aerosol effects on lightning and intensity of landfalling hurricanes / N. Cohen and A. Khain -- Response of tropical cyclogenesis to global warming in an IPCC AR4 scenario / Jean-François Royer and Fabrice Chauvin -- Risk of tropical cyclones over the Mediterranean Sea in a climate change scenario / Miguel Angel Gaertner [and others] -- A fast non-empirical tropical cyclone identification method / Norihiko Sugimoto [and others] -- Boundary layer model for moving tropical cyclones / Andreas Langousis, Daniele Veneziano, and Shuyi Chen -- Changes in tropical cyclone activity due to global warming in a general circulation model / S. Gualdi, E. Scoccimarro, and A. Navarra -- Relationship between ENSO and North Atlantic tropical cyclone frequency simulated in a coupled general circulation model / Satoshi Iizuka and Tomonori Matsuura -- Modeling of tropical cyclones and intensity forecasting / Zafer Boybeyi, Menas Kafatos, and Donglian Sun -- Roadmap to assess the economic cost of climate change with an application to hurricanes in the United States / Stéphane Hallegatte -- The science and politics problem : policymaking, climate change and hurricanes / Glen Sussman |
Summary |
Hurricanes are nature's most destructive agents. They have recently been linked to changes in climate. A 4-day international summit on hurricanes and climate change took place in 2007 to discuss and debate various scientific issues related to this important topic. There were 77 attendees from 18 different countries who participated in the summit. This book is a sample collection of papers from talks that were presented. The chapters are organized around the broad hurricane-climate themes of empirical evidence, statistical methods, and numerical models. A major focus of the conference was the importance of statistical models for understanding how hurricane activity is changing and may change in the future. Emphasis was also placed on evidence of low-frequency swings in hurricane activity using historical and geological records. Results from various high-resolution numerical models, including a 20-km mesh model, were consistent in showing stronger hurricanes in a warmer future. Most numerical models indicate an overall decrease in the number of storms attributable to greater atmospheric stability and to a decrease in vertical mass flux. This book is unique in its scope drawing from an international community of scholars in the field of hurricane climate science. The science addresses a variety of perspectives ranging from the microphysics of lightning to geological evidence of prehistoric storminess |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Hurricanes -- Congresses
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Climatic changes -- Congresses
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Cyclones -- Tropics -- Congresses
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Global warming -- Congresses
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Meteorology & Climatology.
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Sciences de la terre.
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Environnement.
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Climatic changes
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Cyclones
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Global warming
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Hurricanes
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Tropics
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Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Elsner, James B.
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Jagger, Thomas H.
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Aegean Conferences.
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ISBN |
9780387094106 |
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0387094105 |
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