The tropical cyclones in the Caribbean are increasingly frequent and their number could increase significantly in the coming decades, suggests found deeply buried in the great blue hole in Belize.
The researchers took a sediment carriage from the Dolina called the Great Blue Horway, located about 80 kilometers from the Belize coast, which showed that the frequency of tropical cyclones has increased in the last 5,700 years.
Tropical cyclones are intense, rotating low pressure systems, which are formed above the hot waters of the oceans. They transfer heat from the ocean to the upper atmosphere. Tropical cyclones can be extremely destructive, producing strong winds, heavy rainfall and storm waves, notes Noi.md with reference to.
To find out more about these storms over a long period of time, the researchers extracted a sediment caro from the bottom of the Great Blue Grop.
Analyzing the layers of sediment in the core, the researchers found that the tropical cyclones have become more and more frequent in the last 5,700 years, with a special frequency increase since we started burning fossil fuels during the industrial revolution.
According to the study, the increase in global temperature on the surface of the sea, as a result of the climatic changes caused by humans, is probably responsible for the recent increase in the number of tropical storms and will probably lead to an even higher frequency of tropical cyclones in the coming decades.
