Doubling tropical cyclone risk to Hawaiʻi possible
University of Hawaiʻi Four tropical cyclones in the Pacific Ocean, Sept. 2015. (Photo credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project.) Global warming will intensify landfalling tropical cyclones of a category three or higher in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, while suppressing the formation of weaker events. In Hawaiʻi, model simulations show a doubling of the risk of landfalling tropical cyclones, if CO2 concentrations double. That’s according to a study published in Science Advances and co-authored by Malte Stuecker, assistant professor of oceanography in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of O...