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Dust Dampens Hurricane Formation

Warm sea surface temperatures help fuel hurricanes, and in 2006, those temperatures were cooler than expected. Why the difference between 2005 and 2006? William Lau of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Kyu-Myong Kim of University of Maryland-Baltimore County think the answer comes from the Sahara, namely dust.


NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data processed and provided by Chelle Gentemann and Frank Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems. Tropical storm and hurricane tracks provided by the University of Hawaii’s Tropical Storm Information Center.

Published April 18, 2007

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