Hurricanes and Climate Change

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Across
  1. 5. The current ENSO cycle
  2. 8. Warmer air holds more ________
  3. 10. Hurricane that hit New Orleans in 2005
  4. 12. Hurricane that hit Texas in 2017
  5. 13. The ENSO cycle that suppresses hurricane formation
  6. 15. The scale we use to measure hurricane intensity
  7. 17. Hurricane that made landfall in the US Virgin Islands in 2019
  8. 18. If we have an x variable (like average ocean surface temperature) and a y variable (like maximum hurricane wind speed), we can use a _______ ____ to visualize the correlation between x and y
Down
  1. 1. The change in wind speed or direction over a relatively short distance in the atmosphere
  2. 2. Powerful, warm ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico
  3. 3. These melting makes sea level rise
  4. 4. e.g., RCP, Archimedean and elliptical copulae in probability
  5. 6. What a hurricane is called in the pacific
  6. 7. Climate change is ____ ____ shifts in temperatures and weather patterns
  7. 9. Eruptions from this land feature can contribute warming greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, indirectly intensifying hurricane formation
  8. 11. This water cycle stage is faster with warmer ocean temperatures
  9. 14. Hurricane that hit the southeast US in 2024
  10. 16. A belt of low pressure that circles the Earth near the equator, where the trade winds from the Northern and Southern Hemispheres meet (abbreviation)