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Can we trust Atlantic hurricane prediction? [1]

A major modelling study forecast that warming of the north Atlantic could make hurricanes scarcer - while the worst ones might have stronger winds and produce more rain. Thomas Knutson and colleagues from NASA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey, have previously produced a remarkably accurate year-by-year "hindcast" of hurricane numbers over the past 30 years. So their prediction of an 18 per cent decline in the annual hurricane count by late this century commands attention.

Publication Date: 
23/05/2008
Fred Pearce [2]
New Scientist [3]
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North Atlantic Ocean [4], Weather Predictions [5], Climate Change [6], Global Warming [7], Climate Impacts [8], Hurricanes [9], United States Of America (US) [10]
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