Climate change worsened disaster

• Autores: Andy Coghlan
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2943, 2013, pág. 7
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • An unfortunate interplay between typhoon Haiyan's power and direction, and a landscape that funneled a 5-meter-high storm surge straight at the city of Tacloban, spelled disaster last week. Haiyan's high wind speeds pushed a surge of water into the channel separating the island of Samar from the island of Leyte, which gained height in the shallower waters close to land, says Julian Heming, the tropical prediction specialist at the UK Met Office in Exeter. According to the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, changes in wind patterns over the tropical Pacific are playing a key role in driving up local sea levels.