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NASA data reveals impact of cyclones on forests in Vietnam, Madagascar
2014-01-30 08:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Forest disturbance in Madagascar and Vietnam increased significantly in the aftermath of cyclones that hit the countries last year, according to a forest tracking tool developed by a team of NASA researchers. NASA's Quarterly Indicator of Cover Change (QUICC), a MODIS satellite-based product that underpins Mongabay.com's Global Forest Disturbance Alert System (GloF-DAS), detected substantial woodland disturbance in the landfall path of Typhoon Haiyan in central Vietnam and Cyclone Haruna in the...
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East Asia to Experience More Catastrophic Cyclones in Future, Researchers Say
2014-01-16 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: The last three decades have seen a rise in the number and intensity of tropical cyclones hitting East Asia. A new study suggests that sea surface temperature changes over the Pacific and changing atmospheric circulation patterns might be driving these cyclones. Also, the number of cyclones hitting the region might increase in the future. China, Korea and Japan have faced many high-intensity cyclones in the past thirty years. According to the researchers, changes in surface temperatures and...
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In a Decade, Arctic Saw 40 Percent More Cyclones Than Previously Believed
2013-12-11 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: In the decade between 2000 and 2010 about 1,900 cyclones churned through the Arctic, scientists report, noting that total to be about 40 percent more than previously believed. While it may be easy to jump to conclusions about global climate change playing a role in the increase, these high-latitude cyclones have increased largely because scientists have gotten better at detecting them, according to David Bromwich, a geography professor at The Ohio State University, who presented the research this...
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Sea level rise and shoreline changes are lead influences on floods from tropical cyclones
2013-12-04 20:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Despite the fact that recent studies have focused on climate change impacts on the intensity and frequency of tropical cyclones themselves, a research team led by Jon Woodruff of the University of Massachusetts Amherst found on review of the relevant science that sea level rise and shoreline retreat are the two more certain factors expected to drive an increase in future flood risk from such storms. Writing in the current special issue of Nature dedicated to coastal regions, geoscientist Woodruff,...
Expect increasingly violent cyclones, weather experts warn
2013-11-13 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Meteorologists have yet to formally link global warming to typhoons like the one that devastated the Philippines, but they expect increasingly extreme weather phenomena due to a rise in ocean temperatures. The trail of death and destruction left in the wake of Super Typhoon Haiyan was at the forefront of a new round of United Nations climate talks that opened Monday in Poland, as Philippine authorities warned some 10,000 people may have died. Haiyan -- the most powerful typhoon to make landfall...
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