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Better air quality linked to worse hurricanes
2013-06-24 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Scientists from Britain's Meteorological Office have fingered a new suspect in their attempt to solve the mystery of tropical storms. It is, unexpectedly, air quality. If North Atlantic hurricanes are more destructive or more frequent, it may be linked to lower levels of atmospheric pollution. Conversely, sulphate aerosols and other particles from factory chimneys, vehicle exhausts, domestic fires, power stations and other human economic advances may have played a role in keeping tropical storms...
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Tiny, disposable drones monitor hurricanes and survive crash landings
2013-06-18 18:30:20| Extremetech
Some tasks are too dangerous to have a human perform, such as flying over active military zones, spying on a target, or venturing deep below the ocean's surface. A new, tiny disposable drone is exploring dangerous weather systems where humans dare not venture.
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Sandy reopened debate on climate change and hurricanes
2013-05-30 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Houston Chronicle: After Hurricane Sandy slammed into the northeastern United States in late October, it reopened a question scientists have been keenly considering since Hurricane Katrina: How, exactly, is climate change influencing hurricane activity? Some environmental advocates directly linked climate change to Sandy's large size and destructive storm surge. "Folks, this storm is exactly the sort of thing climate scientists have been worried about for years," wrote Amanda Staudt, a senior scientist at the...
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Number Of Hurricanes Reaching Hawaii Could Triple This Century
2013-05-06 13:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Hawaii could experience a two-to-three fold increase in the number of tropical cyclones by the year 2100, according to new research published Sunday in the online edition of Nature Climate Change. Only two hurricanes have made landfall in the island state over the past three decades, but that is likely to change during the last quarter of this century, computer simulations developed by scientists at the University of Hawaii at Manoas International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) have revealed....
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More hurricanes for Hawaii?
2013-05-06 00:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: News of a hurricane threat sends our hearts racing, glues us to the Internet for updates, and makes us rush to the store to stock up on staples. Hawaii, fortunately, has been largely free from these violent storms in the recent past, only two having made landfall in more than 30 years. Now a study headed by a team of scientists at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, shows that Hawaii could see a two-to-three-fold increase in tropical cyclones by the last quarter...
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