Hurricanes and Climate Change

1. Front Matter

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2. Recent Advances in the Emerging Field of Paleotempestology

   • Joanne Muller, Jennifer M. Collins, Samantha Gibson, Leilani Paxton

   Pages 1-33

3. Archival Evidence of Secular Changes in Georgia Hurricanes: 1750–2012

   • Mark R. Welford, Brian H. Bossak, Ethan J. Gibney

   Pages 35-54

4. Near-Time Sea Surface Temperature and Tropical Cyclone Intensity in the Eastern North Pacific Basin

   • Jerry Y. Jien, William A. Gough, Ken Butler, Vincent Cheng, George Arhonditsis

   Pages 55-89

5. Modern Tropical Cyclone Wind Observation and Analysis

   • Christopher C. Hennon, Ethan E. Wright

   Pages 91-115

6. Inland Tropical Cyclones and the “Brown Ocean” Concept

   • Theresa Andersen, Marshall Shepherd

   Pages 117-134

7. Typhoon/Hurricane Disaster Prediction and Prevention for Coastal, Offshore, and Nuclear Power Plant Infrastructure

   • Liu Defu, Liu Guilin, Wang Fengqing, Han Longzhi

   Pages 135-165

8. The Use of Global Climate Models for Tropical Cyclone Risk Assessment

   • Alison Cobb, James Done

   Pages 167-186

9. High-Resolution Multi-decadal Simulation of Tropical Cyclones

   • Michael F. Wehner, Kevin A. Reed, Colin M. Zarzycki

   Pages 187-211

10. Analysis of Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Landfall Forecasts in Coupled GCMs on Seasonal and Decadal Timescales

    • Joanne Camp, Louis-Philippe Caron

    Pages 213-241

11. Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Changes in a Warmer Climate

    • Enrico Scoccimarro, Gabriele Villarini, Silvio Gualdi, Antonio Navarra, Gabriel Vecchi, Kevin Walsh et al.

    Pages 243-255

This book provides research that shows tropical cyclones are more powerful than in the past with the most dramatic increases occurring over the North Atlantic and with the strongest hurricanes. Although such increases are correlated with warming oceans and are consistent with the thermodynamic theory of hurricane intensity, there remains doubt about the interpretation, integrity, and meaning of these results. Arising from the 5th International Summit on Hurricanes and Climate Change, this book contains new research on topics related to hurricanes and climate change. Bringing together international leading academics and researchers on various sides of the debate, the book discusses new research and expresses opinions about what is happening and what might happen in the future with regard to regional and global hurricane (tropical cyclone) activity.

• Hurricane intensity
• International summit on hurricanes and climate change
• Thermodynamic theory
• Tropical cyclones
• North Atlantic hurricanes
• climate change
• climate change impacts

• School of Geosciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA

  Jennifer M. Collins

• School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

  Kevin Walsh

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