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Science 20 July 2001:
Vol. 293. no. 5529, pp. 440 - 441
DOI: 10.1126/science.1062047
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Perspectives

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WEATHER:
Enhanced: Hurricane Threats

Lennart Bengtsson

Severe tropical cyclones (called hurricanes in the North Atlantic and northeast Pacific) can cause loss of human lives and serious economic damage. In his Perspective, Bengtsson charts the current knowledge about how hurricanes form and whether long-term trends can be discerned in the past century or predicted for a future warmer planet. He also discusses the report by Goldenberg et al., who have analyzed hurricane activity in the North Atlantic and the Caribbean over much of the past century.

The author is in the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstr. 55, 20146 Hamburg, Germany, and the Environmental Systems Science Centre, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AL, UK. E-mail: bengtsson@dkrz.de or olb@mail.nerc-essc.ac.uk

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