As natural weather disasters, tropical cyclones possess enormous destructiveness related to their intensity (maximum speed of tangential winds in the lower troposphere within 50 km of the tropical cyclone center). The long-term ...
Earth Sciences
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Climate change will be amplified on the hottest days in tropical regions, causing severe impact to human health, new research from the University of St Andrews has found.
Earth Sciences
Oct 21, 2021
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Longer, hotter and drier spells in countries around the world due to climate change could hit important global crops within the next 50 years.
Environment
Sep 9, 2021
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Tropical storms in 2020 didn't just break records in the northern Atlantic.
Earth Sciences
Aug 27, 2021
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Atmospheric cold pools are pockets of air cooler than their surrounding environment that form when rain evaporates underneath thunderstorms. These relatively dense air masses, ranging between 10 and 200 kilometers in diameter, ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 7, 2021
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The historic 2020 hurricane season, with its record-breaking 30 tropical storms and hurricanes, left in its wake hundreds of deaths in the United States, tens of billions of dollars in damages, and one important question: ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 29, 2021
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Icebergs crumbling into the sea may be what first come to mind when imagining the most dramatic effects of global warming.
Earth Sciences
Jun 3, 2021
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Nearly two billion people live in a region where tropical cyclones (TC) are an annual threat. TCs are deadly and can cause billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide. During peak season in the Northern Hemisphere, typically ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 1, 2021
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Every coastline in the North Atlantic is vulnerable to tropical storms, but some areas are more susceptible to hurricane destruction than others.
Earth Sciences
May 27, 2021
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The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM, was a short interval of highly elevated global temperatures 56 million years ago that is frequently described as the best ancient analog for present-day climate warming.
Paleontology & Fossils
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