tropical cyclone genesisWhile the Atlantic basin experienced the busiest hurricane season in 2020, the typhoon activity over the western North Pacific (WNP) was also record-setting with no tropical cyclone (TC)
Hurricanes are tropical cyclones. When a tropical cyclone's sustained winds reach 39 to 73 mph (63 to 118 km/h), it is considered a tropical storm and it gets a name from a list put out by the World Meteorological Organization. Once those sustained winds reach 74 to 95 mph (119 to 1...
The question of whether and to what extent global warming may be changing tropical cyclone (TC) activity is of great interest to decision makers. The prese
This study investigates the interannual variability of rapid intensification (RI) magnitude of western North Pacific (WNP) tropical cyclones. There is a significant correlation between basin-averaged RI magnitude during July–November and the simultaneous Western Pacific (WP) teleconnection index from 1982...
In the Southwest Pacific, tropical cyclones with maximum wind speeds of 74 mph or higher are called typhoons. When a powerful tropical cyclone hit Guam last week, bringing turbulent winds of at least 150 mph to the island, its strength and location led to the storm's now widely-recognized...
In other parts of the planet, more evaporation and increases in atmospheric water vapor is causing heavy precipitation and flooding. According to NOAA, experts expect that rainfall rates from tropical cyclones in particular to increase by 10%–15%.4 ...
Increasing average temperatures and heat waves are having devasting impacts on human health and well-being but studies of heat impacts and how people adapt
These different molecules are called water isotopes. In large, long-lived, severe storms such as tropical cyclones or squall lines (thunderstorms that organize into lines), the rain is observed to be more depleted in heavy isotopes. Several studies have exploited this property to reconstruct the ...
(LMI) distribution of tropical cyclones (defined as the peak one-minute maximum sustained wind achieved by a tropical cyclone during its lifetime) is bimodal, which means that major storms are not very rare compared to less intense storms [4] — although there is no consensus on why this ...
Cyclones form to the east of Africa or the northwest of Australia. Hurricanes develop in the Caribbean region of the Atlantic Ocean or in the Pacific to the west of Central America. Interestingly, typhoons are not given names as are their hurricane counterparts. Instead, they are given numbers...