Good info to how CO2 have affect with hurricanes in our atmosphere (for project)?

Question

What are good sites for this project, our question was " How does CO2 affect hurricanes and frequecies ". I don't understand the frequency part but its something like how CO2 in the atmosphere affects hurricanes. More like does it affect it or not and if it does what is needed in order for it to happen. I have been searching for information and couldn't find anything good. Hope you guys can help me!

Answer 1

The energy to form hurricanes comes from the sun in the form of high energy ultraviolet radiation (UV) which is very short wavelength and can penetrate the atmosphere. The UV radiation is absorbed by the earth and converted to infrared radiation (heat). CO2 in the atmosphere traps infrared rays trying to escape the earth. Infrared is lower energy, longer wavelength and cannot penetrate back out into space because of the CO2. The more CO2 there is the more heat is trapped. So the earth warms - greenhouse effect! The land and water (oceans) warm. Hurricanes are produced in warm water only. Notice hurricane season is from June to October - when the oceans are warmest. Also notice that hurricanes are always formed in the warm equatorial regions. Logically with the waters warming there is both more time - longer hurricane seasons, and more powerful hurricanes - from added energy (heat) of the water. Hurricanes only form above warm water as already stated. So more time and more area of warm water (as the warm water spreads from the equator into the cooler waters to the north and south of the equator)), and higher water temperatures (again more energy) create more hurricanes and the hurricanes are more powerful. Hope I did not repeat or bore you to much.
Good Luck with this - hope it helps!

Answer 2

Frequency means how often something happens. If something has a high frequency it happens often.

Basically this is asking you if the observed increase in CO2 in the atmosphere is making hurricanes change their patterns and their frequency.

Try Google Scholar, http://www.sciencedirect.com or http://www.jstor.com for articles.