Global Warming

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Global Warming Hurricanes Cause and Effect?
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Brought to you by
Team Terminator
Bradley Laird Rosie Sweetman Guru Rattan
Khalsa Courtney Alt Naima Muntal Carina Zevely
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Outline

• What is a Hurricane?
• 2. What is Global Warming?
• 3. Does global warming effect hurricane intensity
  and occurrence level?
• 4.Conclusion/Discussion

Satellite picture of the eye of hurricane Ivan
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What is a Hurricane?

• Required Conditions
• high humidity
• Warm surface water temperature (typically 80F)
• Light Winds
• Tropical waters (8-20 latitude)

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What is Global Warming?
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Temperature Data
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Data
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Data
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Max Wind Data
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Data
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Is there a correlation?
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There Could Be
P value .01ltPlt.005 (confidence btwn 99-99.5)
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References

• Charts created by the Terminator Team
• http//www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/ushurrlist.htm
  
• http//www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat
• ftp//ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/annual_land.and.o
  cean.ts