Researchers at Griffith_Uni studied BOM_au data on cyclones that formed in the Coral Sea between 1970 and 2020, to get a better local understanding of how they are tracking in intensity and frequency.
One Queensland region is in line to bear the brunt of cyclones into the future, research looking at 50 years of cyclone data has found.
Lead researcher John Miller, a PhD candidate with Griffith’s Coastal and Marine Research Centre, said the overall trend over the 50 years has been for cyclones to appear less frequently, but to be more intense when they do form. “The risk to that area [from cyclones] is certainly not going to decrease in the future – it seems to me it is only increasing,” he said.Credit:“From 2004 onwards you see an increase in power, and it does track laterally east-west, so they are more likely to make landfall.”
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