Hurricanes and Climate Change

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. The Tropical Cyclone Climate Model Intercomparison Project

   • Kevin Walsh, Sally Lavender, Hiroyuki Murakami, Enrico Scoccimarro, Louis-Phillipe Caron, Malek Ghantous

   Pages 1-24

3. Change of Tropical Cyclone and Seasonal Climate State in a Global Warming Experiment with a Global Cloud-System-Resolving Model

   • Kazuyoshi Oouchi, Masaki Satoh, Yohei Yamada, Hirofumi Tomita, Wataru Yanase

   Pages 25-37

4. Role of the SST Anomaly Structures in Response of Cyclogenesis to Global Warming

   • Fabrice Chauvin, Jean-François Royer

   Pages 39-56

5. Tropical Cyclone Rainfall in the Observations, Reanalysis and ARPEGE Simulations in the North Atlantic Basin

   • Anne S. Daloz, Fabrice Chauvin, Frank Roux

   Pages 57-79

6. Tropical Cyclones as a Critical Phenomenon

   • Álvaro Corral

   Pages 81-99

7. Environmental Signals in Property Damage Losses from Hurricanes

   • Thomas H. Jagger, James B. Elsner, R. King Burch

   Pages 101-119

8. A Statistical Analysis of the Frequency of United States and Eastern North Pacific Hurricanes Related to Solar Activity

   • Robert E. Hodges, James B. Elsner

   Pages 121-136

9. Regional Typhoon Activity as Revealed by Track Patterns and Climate Change

   • Pao-Shin Chu, Xin Zhao, Joo-Hong Kim

   Pages 137-148

10. Climatic Features and Their Relationship with Tropical Cyclones Over the Intra-Americas Seas

    • Jorge A. Amador, Eric J. Alfaro, Erick R. Rivera, Blanca Calderón

    Pages 149-173

11. On the Increasing Intensity of the Strongest Atlantic Hurricanes

    • James B. Elsner, Thomas H. Jagger

    Pages 175-190

12. Frequency and Intensity of Hurricanes Within Florida’s Threat Zone

    • Jill C. Malmstadt, James B. Elsner, Thomas H. Jagger

    Pages 191-203

13. Linking Tropical Cyclone Number Over the Western North Pacific with Sea Surface Temperatures

    • Chongjian Liu, Liping Ma, Ying Liu, Zhexian Luo, Xiaotu Lei, Xiaogang Zhou et al.

    Pages 205-215

14. A Track-Relative Climatology of Eglin Air Force Base Hurricanes in a Variable Climate

    • Kelsey N. Scheitlin, James B. Elsner

    Pages 217-229

15. Estimating the Impact of Climate Variability on Cumulative Hurricane Destructive Potential Through Data Mining

    • Roshanak Nateghi, Steven M. Quiring, Seth D. Guikema

    Pages 231-252

16. Back Matter

    Pages 253-255

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Hurricanes are nature’s most destructive agents. Widespread interest surrounds the possibility that they might get even more destructive in the future. Policy makers consider it a call for action. Answers about when and by how much hurricanes will change are sought by financial institutions especially industry. And scientists are challenged by the range and interactions of the processes involved. This book, arising from the 2nd International Summit on Hurricanes and Climate Change, contains new research on topics related to hurricanes and climate change since the 1st Summit. Chapters are grouped into research studies using global climate models and those taking empirical and statistical approaches. The latter include investigations of basin-wide and regional hurricane activity.

• Climate change
• Climatology
• Cloud
• Global climate models
• Global warming
• Hurricanes
• Rain
• Solar variability
• Typhoon
• Typhoons
• cyclone
• temperature
• meteorology

• Department of Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA

  James B. Elsner

• , Department of Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA

  Robert E. Hodges, Jill C. Malmstadt, Kelsey N. Scheitlin

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