Hurricane & Tornado Climate

Introduction Quantile regression extends ordinary least-squares regression to quantiles of the response variable. Ordinary regression is a ...

Named after a Caribbean god of maleficence, the hurricane is an awesome, yet deadly and destructive natural phenomenon of the Earth's oc...

Coastal tropical cyclones (TCs) pose a serious threat to society and the economy. Strong winds, heavy rainfall, and storm surge kill peopl...

Climate research is greatly facilitated with access to a powerful environment for statistical computing. R is an open-source statistical env...

The recent increase in the power of Atlantic tropical cyclones is attributable to greater oceanic warmth in part due to anthropogenic increa...

Relationships of hurricanes affecting the United States can be examined using the methods of network analysis. Network analysis has been us...

Hurricanes cause drastic social problems as well as generate huge economic losses. A reliable forecast of the level of hurricane activity c...

Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming by Chris Mooney Harcourt: July 2007. 392 pp. $26 [An edited version pu...

An International Summit on Hurricanes and Climate Change was held May 27-30, 2007 at the Aldemar Knossos Royal Village in Hersonissos, Crete...

In the absence of higher temporally resolved information on historical hurricanes, we develop a set of hourly-interpolated track values that...

Hurricane risk models used by the insurance industry rely on a catalog of storms that represent the historical data in some way or another. ...

Watch the record-setting season in motion.

Important advances are being made to understand and predict hurricane activity. On the seasonal time scale, and to a first order, we know t...

Hurricane return levels estimated using historical and geological information are quantitatively compared for Lake Shelby, Alabama. The min...

One thing I find surprising about the debate on climate change and hurricanes is the lack of discussion on the North Atlantic oscillation ( ...

The debate on hurricanes and climate change can sometimes devolve into issues of data reliability. Unfortunately some of what is said about...

The World Meteorological Organization has just released their consensus statement on tropical cyclones and climate change which mentions tha...

The power of Atlantic tropical cyclones has risen rather dramatically and the increase is correlated with an increase in the late summer/ear...

Hurricanes are a serious social and economic threat to the United States. Hurricane Katrina is a grim reminder of this fact. Recent advances...

Hurricane Katrina is the most destructive natural disaster in U.S. history. The relative infrequency of severe coastal hurricanes implies th...