Increasing tornado outbreaks -- is climate change responsible?
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Published in Science · View the paper (DOI)
A recent study has found that the frequency of US tornado outbreaks is increasing, but the trend does not resemble those expected under global warming. Instead, researchers attribute the rise to trends in storm relative helicity, a factor not previously linked to climate change.
Coverage from 3 institutions
- Increasing tornado outbreaks -- is climate change responsible? Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science · Dec 1, 2016 · first to report
- Frequency of tornado clusters in US is increasing American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) · Dec 1, 2016
- Large-scale tornado outbreaks increasing in frequency, study finds University of Chicago · Jan 6, 2017