Intense hurricane activity over the past 5,000 years controlled by el niño and the west African monsoon
The processes that control the formation, intensity and track of hurricanes are poorly understood1. It has been proposed that an increase in sea surface temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change has led to an increase in the frequency of intense tropical cyclones2, 3, but this proposal has been challenged on the basis that the instrumental record is too short and unreliable to reveal trends in intense tropical cyclone activity4. Storm-induced deposits preserved in the sediments of coastal lagoons offer the opportunity to study the links between climatic conditions and hurricane activity on longer timescales, because they provide centennial- to millennial-scale records of past hurricane landfalls5, 6, 7, 8.
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
| Subjects: | El Niño oscilación del Sur, Cambio climático, Huracanes, Desastres naturales, |
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