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Fay, Gustav, Hanna, Ike: What's next for the U.S.? What causes nature's destructive storms? How do scientists study and predict them? How are they linked to global warming?
September 5, 2008 |
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Jose Maliekal, an associate professor of earth sciences at the State University of New York at Brockport, explains
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A century's worth of records suggests that hurricanes are on the rise and a warming Atlantic is to blame
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With strong winds and heavy rains, tropical cyclones remain nature's fiercest storms
60-Second Science
Getting hurricane data by using undersea hydrophones that record the hurricane-driven churning of the ocean may be a cheaper, safer alternative to flyovers
In May forecasters predicted more than 11 tropical cyclones
While tough on reefs directly in their path, hurricanes actually help reefs further afield by cooling oceans that have grown too warm
Paving over and farming on floodplains blamed for record floods in the Midwest
A major hurricane could swamp New Orleans under 20 feet of water, killing thousands. Human activities along the Mississippi River have dramatically increased the risk, and now only massive reengineering of southeastern Louisiana can save the city
A century's worth of records suggests that hurricanes are on the rise and a warming Atlantic is to blame
In a harrowing prediction of what would become the future, this 2001 feature notes that a major hurricane could swamp New Orleans under 20 feet of water, killing thousands
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