Detected climatic change in global distribution of tropical cyclones

Tropical Cyclones and Global Climate Change: A Post-IPCC Assessment

The very limited instrumental record makes extensive analyses of the natural variability of global tropical cyclone activities difficult in most of the tropical cyclone basins. However, in the two regions where reasonably reliable records exist (the North Atlantic and the western North Pacific), substantial multidecadal variability (particularly for intense Atlantic hurricanes) is found, but th...

Comments on " Global Climate Change and Tropical Cyclones " : Part II

Observed strong currents under global tropical cyclones

a Department of Marine Biotechnology and Resources, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan b Department of Oceanography, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan c Naval Ocean Analysis and Prediction Laboratory, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93943, USA d Institute of Maritime Information and Technology, National Kaohsiung Marine University, Kaohsiung ...

Climate change. Can we detect trends in extreme tropical cyclones?

process may not have been so smooth as initially thought, and numerical simulations performed by Tsiganis et al. (4) show that the passage of Jupiter and Saturn through a 2:1 resonance may have ignited a period of strong chaotic evolution of Uranus and Neptune. In this scenario, the two planets had frequent close encounters and may even have exchanged orbits before their eccentricities finally ...

Clouds in Tropical Cyclones

Clouds within the inner regions of tropical cyclones are unlike those anywhere else in the atmosphere. Convective clouds contributing to cyclogenesis have rotational and deep intense updrafts but tend to have relatively weak downdrafts. Within the eyes of mature tropical cyclones, stratus clouds top a boundary layer capped by subsidence. An outward-sloping eyewall cloud is controlled by adjustm...