Hurricanes are responsible for some of the most costly and devastating disasters to impact the USA, as recent events like Hurricane Helene have underscored. While hurricanes play a crucial role in Earth’s climate system, their characteristics are increasingly influenced by the rising concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2).

Join us on November 13th for a lecture on our current understanding of how anthropogenic climate change is modifying the characteristics of hurricanes. Suzana Camargo will examine both the changes we can already detect in recent years and the projections for the end of the century. The lecture will begin with a brief overview of hurricane science and notable historical cases before analyzing the effects of global warming on these powerful storms.

Suzana Camargo

Suzana Camargo is originally from Brazil and has been working at Columbia University since 1999. She is currently the Marie Tharp Lamont Research Professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. She is an expert on the relationship between extreme weather events and climate, in particular, hurricanes and typhoons. She was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2023 in recognition for her research in those topics.

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Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory seeks fundamental knowledge about the origin, evolution, and future of the natural world. Its scientists study the planet from its deepest interior to the outer reaches of its atmosphere, on every continent and in every ocean, providing a rational basis for the difficult choices facing humanity.

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