1. Global Warming & Hurricanes: Cause and Effect?

2. Brought to you by: Team Terminator Bradley Laird Rosie Sweetman Guru Rattan Khalsa Courtney Alt Naima Muntal Carina Zevely

3. Outline • What is a Hurricane? • 2. What is Global Warming? • 3. Does global warming effect hurricane intensity and occurrence level? • 4.Conclusion/Discussion Satellite picture of the eye of hurricane Ivan

4. What is a Hurricane? • Required Conditions: • high humidity • Warm surface water temperature (typically 80°F) • Light Winds • Tropical waters (8°-20° latitude)

5. What is Global Warming?

6. Temperature Data

7. Data

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9. Max Wind Data

10. Data

11. Is there a correlation?

12. There Could Be… P value= .01<P<.005 (confidence btwn 99-99.5%)

13. References • Charts created by the Terminator Team • http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/ushurrlist.htm • http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat • ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/annual_land.and.ocean.ts