Hurricanes and Climate Change: Volume 2

✍ Scribed by Kevin Walsh, Sally Lavender, Hiroyuki Murakami (auth.), James B. Elsner, Robert E. Hodges, Jill C. Malmstadt, Kelsey N. Scheitlin (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 256
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Hurricanes are nature’s most destructive agents. Widespread interest surrounds the possibility that they might get even more destructive in the future. Policy makers consider it a call for action. Answers about when and by how much hurricanes will change are sought by financial institutions especially industry. And scientists are challenged by the range and interactions of the processes involved. This book, arising from the 2nd International Summit on Hurricanes and Climate Change, contains new research on topics related to hurricanes and climate change since the 1st Summit. Chapters are grouped into research studies using global climate models and those taking empirical and statistical approaches. The latter include investigations of basin-wide and regional hurricane activity.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
The Tropical Cyclone Climate Model Intercomparison Project....Pages 1-24
Change of Tropical Cyclone and Seasonal Climate State in a Global Warming Experiment with a Global Cloud-System-Resolving Model....Pages 25-37
Role of the SST Anomaly Structures in Response of Cyclogenesis to Global Warming....Pages 39-56
Tropical Cyclone Rainfall in the Observations, Reanalysis and ARPEGE Simulations in the North Atlantic Basin....Pages 57-79
Tropical Cyclones as a Critical Phenomenon....Pages 81-99
Environmental Signals in Property Damage Losses from Hurricanes....Pages 101-119
A Statistical Analysis of the Frequency of United States and Eastern North Pacific Hurricanes Related to Solar Activity....Pages 121-136
Regional Typhoon Activity as Revealed by Track Patterns and Climate Change....Pages 137-148
Climatic Features and Their Relationship with Tropical Cyclones Over the Intra-Americas Seas....Pages 149-173
On the Increasing Intensity of the Strongest Atlantic Hurricanes....Pages 175-190
Frequency and Intensity of Hurricanes Within Florida’s Threat Zone....Pages 191-203
Linking Tropical Cyclone Number Over the Western North Pacific with Sea Surface Temperatures....Pages 205-215
A Track-Relative Climatology of Eglin Air Force Base Hurricanes in a Variable Climate....Pages 217-229
Estimating the Impact of Climate Variability on Cumulative Hurricane Destructive Potential Through Data Mining....Pages 231-252
Back Matter....Pages 253-255

✦ Subjects

Earth Sciences, general; Climate Change; Meteorology/Climatology; Physical Geography; Oceanography