Anthropogenic climate change has contributed to sea surface warming, influencing the intensity of storms like Hurricane Sandy, a leading climate scientist has told EurActiv. Sea surface temperatures off the American East Coast were nearly 3º warmer than usual this autumn – a near record – and 0.6º of that could be linked to climate change, said Dim Coumou, an earth systems analyst at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.
“This has an influence on the intensity of the storm because if the sea surface temperatures are higher, the overlying atmospheric temperature will also be higher and the air can hold more moisture,” he told EurActiv.
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