Subject Area
Biology
Description
Hurricanes are both dangerous and difficult to predict because of the various factors that influence the size and intensity of storms, where sea surface temperature (SST) is one of the most relevant variables. As temperatures are increasingly rising due to climate change, the effect on storm size, intensity, and frequency is going to be greater. There have been many studies how individual storms are affected, but less so on the overall frequency of hurricanes. This study assesses the number of hurricanes each year in comparison to the SST and the average wind speed of each hurricane. I predict that years with a higher frequency of hurricanes will have a higher average SST. I also predict that the years that have a higher frequency of hurricanes will have higher average wind speeds of hurricanes that year. The formation of tropical storms depends upon the relationship between SST and the temperature of the atmosphere; therefore, I am predicting that an increase in SST would lead to a year with more hurricanes overall. BIO 340 final project
Publisher
Providence College
Date
Spring 5-2-2024
Type
Poster
Format
Text
.pdf (text under image)
Language
English
