Title: Changes to Sea Surface Temperature and their influence on Tropical Cyclone activities in the Caribbean

Speaker: Keneshia Hibbert, CUNY Graduate Center

Date: April 14, 20223

Time: 2:00 PM ET

Venue: Sayre Hall Classroom, Princeton NJ

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Abstract:

Tropical Cyclone formation requires warm ocean waters and low wind shear. Changes to sea surface anomalies and wind shear influences are essential to understanding storm development and intensification. The ability to forecast storm changes is vital to human lives and livelihoods. This work looks at SST and VWS trends in the Caribbean, surrounding, and Atlantic main developing region. We find increasing SSTs, decreasing wind shears , an expanding Atlantic Warm Pool, and increased storm intensity during the Atlantic hurricane season

Keneshia is a Ph.D. student at the Graduate Center, CUNY.  As a master’s student, she was a NOAA EPP/MSI Scholar at the City College of New York.  Her current research is on how climate change affects key tropical cyclone variables, and how these changes affect the frequency and intensity of cyclones