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Hurricane María’s Precipitation Signature in Puerto Rico: A Conceivable Presage of Rains to Come
The effects of global climate change on the intensity of tropical cyclones are yet to be fully understood due to the variety of factors that affect storm intensity, the limited time spans of existing records, and the diversity of metrics by which intensity is characterized. The 2017 North Atlantic h...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6821759/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31666631 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-52198-2 |
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author | Ramos-Scharrón, Carlos E. Arima, Eugenio |
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description | The effects of global climate change on the intensity of tropical cyclones are yet to be fully understood due to the variety of factors that affect storm intensity, the limited time spans of existing records, and the diversity of metrics by which intensity is characterized. The 2017 North Atlantic hurricane season induced record-breaking economic losses and caused hundreds of fatalities, and for many represents a presage of what the future holds under warmer tropical sea surface temperatures. This article focuses on one such major hurricane, María, and answers the question of how this event compares to the historical record of tropical storms that have assailed the island of Puerto Rico since 1898. Comparisons relied on interpolated weather station total rainfall and maximum 24-h rainfall intensities. María proved to have the greatest 24-h rain intensities among all storms recorded in Puerto Rico, yielding maximum 24-h recurrence intervals greater than 250 years for about 8% of the island. |
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spelling | pubmed-68217592019-11-05 Hurricane María’s Precipitation Signature in Puerto Rico: A Conceivable Presage of Rains to Come Ramos-Scharrón, Carlos E. Arima, Eugenio Sci Rep Article The effects of global climate change on the intensity of tropical cyclones are yet to be fully understood due to the variety of factors that affect storm intensity, the limited time spans of existing records, and the diversity of metrics by which intensity is characterized. The 2017 North Atlantic hurricane season induced record-breaking economic losses and caused hundreds of fatalities, and for many represents a presage of what the future holds under warmer tropical sea surface temperatures. This article focuses on one such major hurricane, María, and answers the question of how this event compares to the historical record of tropical storms that have assailed the island of Puerto Rico since 1898. Comparisons relied on interpolated weather station total rainfall and maximum 24-h rainfall intensities. María proved to have the greatest 24-h rain intensities among all storms recorded in Puerto Rico, yielding maximum 24-h recurrence intervals greater than 250 years for about 8% of the island. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-10-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6821759/ /pubmed/31666631 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-52198-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Ramos-Scharrón, Carlos E. Arima, Eugenio Hurricane María’s Precipitation Signature in Puerto Rico: A Conceivable Presage of Rains to Come |
title | Hurricane María’s Precipitation Signature in Puerto Rico: A Conceivable Presage of Rains to Come |
title_full | Hurricane María’s Precipitation Signature in Puerto Rico: A Conceivable Presage of Rains to Come |
title_fullStr | Hurricane María’s Precipitation Signature in Puerto Rico: A Conceivable Presage of Rains to Come |
title_full_unstemmed | Hurricane María’s Precipitation Signature in Puerto Rico: A Conceivable Presage of Rains to Come |
title_short | Hurricane María’s Precipitation Signature in Puerto Rico: A Conceivable Presage of Rains to Come |
title_sort | hurricane maría’s precipitation signature in puerto rico: a conceivable presage of rains to come |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6821759/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31666631 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-52198-2 |
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