A Tempestuous Birth for Hurricane Climatology

摘要

MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA—It's not every day one can witness the inception of a new field. Researchers attending tae 27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology late last month got their usual diet of potential vorticity analyses and Madden-Julian oscillations. But they also debated a newborn science created to assess whether tropical cyclones—variously called hurricanes, typhoons, or cyclones—have strengthened under global warming.