Biden says it is likely to rank among the most destructive storms in US history
A resident assists neighbours through flooded streets in Orlando, Florida, on September 30 2022. Picture: BLOOMBERG/BRIAN CARLSON
To arrive at their finding, Michael Wehner of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Kevin Reed of Stony Brook University relied on what they call a “storyline” approach. That involves using a publicly available model to replay the storm. Then they’re able to remove the effects of climate change “using sort of a ‘cookbook’ from existing studies,” said Wehner.
Wehner said the quick look at Hurricane Ian turned out to be “a little more interesting” scientifically than he had expected. The reason lies in a discovery made in part by a French engineer, Benoît Clapeyron, in the 1830s. While trying to improve steam engines, Clapeyron figured out something interesting about air and water: for every degree Celsius rise in temperature, air seemed as if it was able to hold about 7% more water vapour. This is now known as the Clausius-Clapeyron equation.
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