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Climate change caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gases may have some
effect on tropical cyclone characteristics. Many theoretical and modelling studies now suggest that tropical cyclones may become slightly more intense in a warmer world, but may also be fewer.
Current projects
The Pacific Climate Change Science Program
A recent paper
The CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship
A recent paper from this project
U.S. CLIVAR Working Group on Hurricanes
TCMIP -- an intercomparison project on the simulation of tropical cyclones by climate models
Further information on this
topic:
What the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
said in 2001
What the IWTC said in 2006 on tropical cyclones and climate change
A recent Nature paper on this topic
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