Re: Fwd: The Met Office Monthly Tropical Cyclone Summary
Weatherlawyer
wrote:
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> Date: 08 Apr 2008 1530
> Subject: The Met Office Monthly Tropical Cyclone Summary
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> The March 2008 edition of this publication has just been released
> and is available on the Met Office World Wide Web sitehttp://www.metoffice.gov.ukunder the menu "Weather/World Weather" or go
> direct tohttp://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/tropicalcyclone/tcbulletins/2008/....
8 April 2006
Tropical Cyclones workshop
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* Climate Science
-- gavin @ 11:45 AM
One of the nice things about a being a scientist is that you can
sometimes go to workshops and meetings and actually hear something new
now and again. At the well-timed Tropical Cyclones and Climate
Workshop at Columbia a week or so ago, I got a chance to sit in and
listen to Emanuel, Landsea, Knutson and Bell talking about their
recent work, but I also got to hear some new voices (and issues) in
the discussion. It was all pretty enlightening even if it didn't end
up in complete reconciliation of the different views.
I won't bother recapping the main points of contention (you can read
about them here and here), but instead I'll just mention a few salient
points that struck me as interesting.
Data quality: No-one was happy with the current state of the
historical Tropical Cyclone (TC) databases, and some questions were
even raised (by Landsea) about the quality of the satellite-era record
(though no evidence was presented that demonstrated a real problem).
However, no-one questioned the recent rise in hurricane activity in
the Atlantic.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/04/tropical-cyclones-workshop/
I wonder what is meant by:
"No-one was happy with the current state of the historical Tropical
Cyclone databases..."