WARMER OCEAN COULD REDUCE NUMBER OF ATLANTIC HURRICANE LANDFALLS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News | January 22, 2008 | Copyright

The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration issued the following press release:

A warming global ocean - influencing the winds that shear off the tops of developing storms - could mean fewer Atlantic hurricanes striking the United States according to new findings by NOAA climate scientists. Furthermore, the relative warming role of the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans is important for determining Atlantic hurricane activity.

The article, to be published on January 23 in Geophysical Research Letters, uses observations to show that warming of global ...

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