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Cyclones are 10% stronger

12.03.2020

Ultra-precise computer simulations conducted by the NCAR Atmospheric Research Center in Boulder, Colorado, USA, have shown that global warming has significantly increased the destructive power of tropical cyclones and caused them to move deep into the Australian continent, according to a climate scientists report released on Wednesday by the Australian Association of Insurance Companies (IAG ).

According to scientists, in the last 5 years, the intensity and destructive power of tropical cyclones hitting the northern coast of the continent has increased by almost 10%.

This data was confirmed by another group of experts - a team of meteorologists, hydrologists, engineers and mathematicians, assembled by IAG after the floods in Queensland last February. Through extensive field research and computer simulations, scientists have found that rising temperatures in the oceans surrounding Australia have caused tropical cyclones to increasingly remain strong enough to move deeper into Australia.

According to meteorologists, cyclones will move further south, affecting densely populated areas of the continent. An increase in sea temperature of just 1 ° above + 26 ° can increase the power of a cyclone by one category, making a typhoon out of a storm.

Information from computer simulations convincingly indicates that the advance of cyclones to the south is just a matter of time. The area of the tropics is expanding towards the poles, which means that regions with tropical weather systems are also growing and will experience a constant increase in the number of cyclones and their intensity.

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