The authors of the new work decided to study the statistics of the frequency of hurricanes to understand what is causing their increase.
Record number of Atlantic hurricanes in 2020year, a whopping 30 named storms have led to intense conversations about whether it's related to climate change. This is a question that scientists continue to work on.
Gabriel Vecchi, a climate scientist at Princeton University.
Climatologists have studied the data of the national centerobserving hurricanes between 1851 and 2019, compared this data with how the Earth's climate was changing at that time and calculated the typical frequency of hurricanes in the Atlantic, their strength and duration.
Over the past 150 years, the Atlantic region has experiencedseveral rather long episodes of sharp intensification and weakening of storms, each of which lasted about 30-35 years. In particular, between 1900 and 1930, and also in 1960-1980, hurricanes were relatively rare.
The authors, however, noted that at the end of the 19th centuryand in the middle of the last century, the frequency of hurricanes was similar compared to today. From this we can conclude that the number of hurricanes does not depend so much on climate change as on long-term climate fluctuations.
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