Severe weather in a warming climate

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dc.contributor.authorLiu, Chuntao
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-02T16:48:10Z
dc.date.available2022-02-02T16:48:10Z
dc.date.issued2017-04-27
dc.description.abstractDuring the past few decades, the Sahara Desert has become even hotter. Satellite observations suggest that this warming has led to a rise in the frequency of extreme storms in the Sahel region of West Africa. One of the most frequently asked questions regarding climate change is how a warming climate will affect weather in the future. Many disastrous weather events in the past few decades, including Hurricane Katrina (2005) and Hurricane Sandy (2012), have driven scientists to seek a better understanding of the occurrence, frequency and intensity of such events. For example, there has been debate over whether warming will lead to an increase in the number of intense tropical cyclones1,2. A major obstacle in reaching a conclusion from these discussions is that extremely destructive weather events are rare, making it difficult to obtain robust statistics. Taylor et al.3 make progress in this direction. They use 35 years of satellite observations to show that there has been a persistent increase in the frequency of extreme storms called mesoscale convective systems in the Sahel the semi-arid region to the south of the Sahara Deserten_US
dc.description.abstractDuring the past few decades, the Sahara Desert has become even hotter. Satellite observations suggest that this warming has led to a rise in the frequency of extreme storms in the Sahel region of West Africa. One of the most frequently asked questions regarding climate change is how a warming climate will affect weather in the future. Many disastrous weather events in the past few decades, including Hurricane Katrina (2005) and Hurricane Sandy (2012), have driven scientists to seek a better understanding of the occurrence, frequency and intensity of such events. For example, there has been debate over whether warming will lead to an increase in the number of intense tropical cyclones1,2. A major obstacle in reaching a conclusion from these discussions is that extremely destructive weather events are rare, making it difficult to obtain robust statistics. Taylor et al.3 make progress in this direction. They use 35 years of satellite observations to show that there has been a persistent increase in the frequency of extreme storms called mesoscale convective systems in the Sahel the semi-arid region to the south of the Sahara Desert
dc.identifier.citationLiu, C. Severe weather in a warming climate. Nature 544, 422–423 (2017)en_US
dc.identifier.citationLiu, C. Severe weather in a warming climate. Nature 544, 422–423 (2017)
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1038/544422a
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1969.6/90132
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherMacmillan Publishers Limiteden_US
dc.publisherMacmillan Publishers Limited
dc.subjectweatheren_US
dc.subjectclimateen_US
dc.subjectatmosphereen_US
dc.subjectatmospheric scienceen_US
dc.subjectweather
dc.subjectclimate
dc.subjectatmosphere
dc.subjectatmospheric science
dc.titleSevere weather in a warming climateen_US
dc.titleSevere weather in a warming climate
dc.typeArticleen_US
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