One of the major concerns with a potential change in climate is that an increase in extreme
events will occur. Results of observational studies suggest that in many areas that have …

Due to its high energy generation potential, coal is widely used in power generation in
different countries. Although, the presence of carbon, hydrogen and sulfur in coal facilitates …

This report is the first complete assessment of the science of climate change since Working
Group I (WGI) of the IPCC produced its second report Climate Change 1995: The Science of …

Abstract Theory 1 and modelling 2 predict that hurricane intensity should increase with
increasing global mean temperatures, but work on the detection of trends in hurricane …

The goal of the International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS) project is
to collect the historical tropical cyclone best-track data from all available Regional …

We examined the number of tropical cyclones and cyclone days as well as tropical cyclone
intensity over the past 35 years, in an environment of increasing sea surface temperature. A …

The world's climate is changing and will continue to change into the coming century at rates
projected to be unprecedented in recent human history. The risks associated with these …

The years 1995 to 2000 experienced the highest level of North Atlantic hurricane activity in
the reliable record. Compared with the generally low activity of the previous 24 years (1971 …

The results presented in this chapter are based on simulations made with global climate
models and apply to spacial scales of hundreds of kilometres and larger. Chapter 10 …

The frequency with which tropical cyclones (TCs) occur controls all other aspects of tropical
cyclone risk since a storm that does not occur can do no harm. Yet this frequency is poorly …