Intense Southwest Florida Hurricane Landfalls over the Past 1000 Years

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Ercolani, Christian, Muller, Joanne, Collins, Jennifer, Savarese, Michael, Squiccimara, Louis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ University of South Florida 2015
• Subjects: Paleotempestology; Southwest Florida; Hurricanes; Main development region; Barrier beaches; Earth Sciences; Barrier Island; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/geo_facpub/1396; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.08.008

Recent research has proposed that human-induced sea surface temperature (SST) warming has led to an increase in the intensity of hurricanes over the past 30 years. However, this notion has been challenged on the basis that the instrumental record is too short and unreliable to reveal long-term trend...