CSC110 Final Project | University of Toronto

The Effect of Global Warming on Hurricane and Typhoon Occurrence

Introduction

The NASA Earth Observatory defines Global Warming as ”the unusually rapid increase in Earth’s average surface temperature over the past century” (Riebeek). As the global temperature has risen over the past decades,we are seeing more frequent occurrences of hurricanes and typhoons across the globe; these natural disasters have damaged properties, ruined communities, and destroyed people’s lives (Miller). Is the increase in hurricanes and typhoons related to global warming? If so, how are they related?

I will analyze global temperature data procured by Berkeley Earth across land and ocean, as well as hurricane and typhoon occurrence data collected by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration limited to the Atlantic basin and the Pacific Ocean regions.

Jupyter Notebook

You may view the Jupyter Notebook online, via this link: https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/urls/gitlab.com/sammdu/csc110-final-project/-/raw/master/main.ipynb

Data Sources

Berkeley Earth | The Berkeley Earth Land/Ocean Temperature Record

http://berkeleyearth.org/data-new/
License: CC BY-4.0
Project path(s):
   data/berkeley-earth-global-temperature.txt

NOAA | Hurricanes and Typhoons (Atlantic basin and the North Pacific Ocean)

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/#hurdat
License: CC0 Public Domain
Project path(s):
   data/noaa-atlantic.txt
   data/noaa-pacific.txt

License

Source code distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE file.
Datasets distributed under their respective original licenses.