Mediterranean Hurricanes?

**GordMay** · 19-07-2007, 09:17

Mediterranean Hurricanes?

The Mediterranean could start generating its own hurricanes, if sea temperatures keep rising, a study has warned.
In a paper published in the American Geophysical Union Journal, Miguel Gaertner and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, used a range of regional climate models to assess the chance of similar events in the Mediterranean.
Evidently, a rise of 3ºC in average temperatures, due to anthropogenic global warming, could trigger the formation of hurricanes and tropical storms in the Mediterranean. “

Their results appear in the latest issue of the Journal Geophysical Research Letters Geophysical Research Letters .

More:
Hurricanes Brewing in Mediterranean? ~ by Larry O'Hanlon (Discovery News)
Discovery Channel :: News - Earth :: Hurricanes Brewing in Mediterranean?

19-07-2007, 09:17	#1
GordMay Administrator Site Administrator Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W Boat: C.L.O.D. (Cruiser Living On Dirt) Posts: 9,339 Images: 230	Mediterranean Hurricanes? Mediterranean Hurricanes? The Mediterranean could start generating its own hurricanes, if sea temperatures keep rising, a study has warned. In a paper published in the American Geophysical Union Journal, Miguel Gaertner and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, used a range of regional climate models to assess the chance of similar events in the Mediterranean. Evidently, a rise of 3ºC in average temperatures, due to anthropogenic global warming, could trigger the formation of hurricanes and tropical storms in the Mediterranean. “ Their results appear in the latest issue of the Journal Geophysical Research Letters Geophysical Research Letters . More: Hurricanes Brewing in Mediterranean? ~ by Larry O'Hanlon (Discovery News) Discovery Channel :: News - Earth :: Hurricanes Brewing in Mediterranean? __________________ Gord May ~~_/)_~~ (Gord & Maggie - "Southbound") "If you didn't have time/$ to do it right in the first place, when will you get the time/$ to fix it?"

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