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  • Intense hurricane activity over the past 5,000 years controlled by El Niño and the West African monsoon

    • Jeffrey P. Donnelly, Jonathan D. Woodruff
      Original article citation: Nature 447," (2007).

    • Categories: Atmospheric Sciences, Paleoclimate, and Extreme Events
    • Recommended by the Editor: Olive Heffernan on 06/06/2007 09:19PM GMT
      
      In this recent Nature paper, Jeffrey Donnelly and Jonathan Woodruff of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution looked at the relationship between the number of hurricanes over the past 5,000 years and changes in the El Nino Southern Oscillation and the West African monsoon. They analyzed sediment from a Caribbean lagoon that contains preserved records of past hurricane landfalls and found that variations in El Niño and the African jet stream significantly influenced hurricane activity during this period. This suggests that climate change is not the only factor determining hurricane variability.
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  • Observational evidence for an ocean heat pump induced by tropical cyclones

    • Ryan L. Sriver, Matthew Huber
      Original article citation: Nature 447," (2007).

    • Categories: Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Impacts, and Ocean Sciences
    • Recommended by the Editor: Olive Heffernan on 06/06/2007 09:18PM GMT
      
      Ryan Sriver and Matthew Huber of Purdue University, Indiana, present substantive evidence in this Nature paper that tropical cyclones play a critial role in mixing the upper layers of the ocean. Ocean mixing transports heat from the tropics to cooler regions, so this has climate implications. The concept isn't new, but it's a solid piece of work as they have more data and longer sampling periods than previous studies. They also auggest that climate change could increase cyclone-induced mixing and heat transport in the future.
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