Hi John, Kelly, ad Armand--With respect to hurricane modification, there may be an alternative approach to consider other than cooling the areas where the hurricanes develop. Stu Ostro of The Weather Channel has written a review of this year's hurricane season; see http://www.wunderground.com/blog/stuostro/show.html?entrynum=18
What is interesting is that there is a channel that seems to control the tracks of hurricanes up and into the North Atlantic where the storms hopefully die. So, maybe an approach is to think about altering North Atlantic temperature changes in a way that keeps hurricanes out to sea in the Atlantic. And for Hurricane Sandy, that alters conditions in the Labrador Sea area so that the hurricanes heading up the East Coast of North America don't get trapped along the coast and can be blown out to sea. Now, I know this does not benefit Caribbean island nations and so this is likely not the only approach to be thinking about, but might it be that an alternative approach would be to try to steer hurricanes to areas of the ocean where coastal cities and infrastructure would not be much affected? At least it could be evaluated if this might be easier, at least during some years. Mike MacCracken On 12/7/12 1:41 PM, "John Latham" <john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk> wrote: > Hello All, > > Regarding the unfortunately topical issues of hurricane strength and damage, > I attach a press release written by our MCB colleague Kelly Wanser, > describing our work on the possibility of weakening hurricanes via MCB: and > also our recently published paper on the same topic. > > All Best, John. > > > John Latham > Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 > Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk > Tel: (US-Work) 303-497-8182 or (US-Home) 303-444-2429 > or (US-Cell) 303-882-0724 or (UK) 01928-730-002 > http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/people/latham -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
