I plan to determine if hurricane frequency and/or intensity have increased with global warming as recorded in SST and CO2. I am not sure what I will find. It would be interesting to find a relationship, but I am not sure how much would be directly related to climate change. Technology has developed so rapidly in the past 50 years that more hurricanes are being spotted, but that does not necessarily mean there truly is an increase in hurricane frequency.
2. Relevance of your research question
a.Literature Review--What have others done?
b.How does your research relate to a larger question (like the real World)?
It seems as though there are two schools of thought surrounding this issue. The more popular and well-known group believe that hurricanes are related to the recent changes in climate. On the other hand some researchers believe that in global warming only the higher latitudes will experience a great change in temperature which would not change the climate near the equator very much.
3. Materials and Methods
a.What is your experimental design? Is it statistically sound?
b.Describe important materials and how they will be used.
c.Describe other methods. How will you involve the class in your study? Be specific!
d.Have you included a Data Sheet?
e.Include a specific time-line of research execution
I have found tables and tables of collected data about hurricanes at various websites and in a few books. I plan to combine all of that data with data concerning SSTs and CO2 levels to determine whether they are related or not. I will run statistical tests on all of the data, but I am not sure which ones would work the best!
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