{"id":3100,"date":"2008-01-11T11:11:35","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T17:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2013-06-14T15:27:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T20:27:56","slug":"monthly-news-summary-january-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/articles\/3100","title":{"rendered":"Monthly News Summary – January 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recipe for a storm: The ingredients for more powerful Atlantic hurricanes<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Atlantic Meridional Mode is associated with a sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA). During the “warm phase” of the AMM, hurricane activity increases substantially. There are more storms; they form further to the east and closer to the equator; they last longer; and they get stronger. During the “cool phase,” storms are infrequent and tend to form in the subtropics off the southeastern United States coast. Major hurricanes (category 3 and above) are very rare during the cool phase.<\/div>\n

As the world warms, the interaction between the Atlantic Ocean and atmosphere may be the recipe for stronger, more frequent hurricanes.<\/p>\n

UW-Madison scientists have found that the Atlantic organizes the ingredients for a powerful hurricane season to create a situation where either everything is conducive to hurricane activity or nothing is \u2014 potentially making the Atlantic more vulnerable to climate change than the world\u2019s other hurricane hot spots.<\/p>\n

After the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons, many worry what Atlantic hurricane seasons will look like in a warmer world. Evidence indicates that higher ocean temperatures add a lot of fuel to these devastating storms.<\/p>\n

In a paper published on Nov. 29, in the\u00a0Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society<\/em>, co-authors\u00a0Jim Kossin<\/strong>\u00a0and Dan Vimont caution against only looking at one piece of the puzzle. \u201cSea surface temperature is a bit overrated,\u201d says Kossin, an atmospheric scientist at SSEC\/CIMSS. \u201cIt\u2019s part of a larger pattern.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the full UW-Madison news release.<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/a>SSEC provides satellite images in Google Earth<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Google Earth users can now access the most recent high-quality satellite images generated at SSEC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Satellite images provide a dramatic view of the Earth and its atmosphere. For timely views of winter weather in Wisconsin or wild fires in California,\u00a0Google Earth users can now access the most recent high-quality satellite images generated at SSEC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unlike other satellite images accessible in the Google Earth interface, the center\u2019s images show the natural colors of the Earth\u2019s surface, and are available less than one hour after receiving the data from the satellite instrumentation. The images are made possible by the direct broadcast antenna on the SSEC building\u2019s rooftop.<\/p>\n

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You can download Google Earth for free here:http:\/\/earth.google.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

SSEC has two types of satellite images formatted for use in Google Earth: High-resolution images of the United States and coarser resolution images that cover more of the globe. Using the Google Earth interface, users see the latest satellite views of the Rockies before a skiing trip or of the latest storm brewing over the ocean.<\/p>\n

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A sampling of the blogs that featured SSEC\u2019s Google Earth data:<\/p>\n