Fewer, but More Intense Hurricanes (2 of 3) (IMAGE)
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Projected late 21st Century changes in three different intensity classes of Atlantic tropical storm and hurricanes (in percent). These projections were made using the GFDL hurricane model together with climate change conditions from a number of different climate models. The colored bars are based on the average climate change from 18 models, with the dots representing the projections from four individual climate models, showing a measure of uncertainty in the results. The slightly larger dots indicate where results from 2 models overlapped. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Jan. 22, 2010, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Morris Bender at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J., and colleagues, was titled, "Modeled Impact of Anthropogenic Warming on the Frequency of Intense Atlantic Hurricanes."
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