I'm trying to track research perspectives on recent hurricanes' devastation and climate change.
It is not possible to publish anything in a scientific journal this fast. Opinion articles are available in popular newspapers. Please find the responses to my earlier question via the links below.
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Has_your_opinion_changed_about_weather_anomalies_and_climate_change_based_on_the_recent_Hurricane_events
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Can_you_link_Hurricane_Harvey_to_Global_Warming_or_Climate_Change
it is claimed that climate change impacts just intensified it and didn't cause for it.
As mentioned above by others the events are too young to already figure in scientific publications. Apart from this it is difficult to relate individual events to climate change. Climate so to say is the average weather over an observation period of 30 and more years. Beyond that there is climate variability. Events such an individual hurricane can be the result of climate variability. If, however, over a long observation period the average intensity of cyclones increase then this can be interpreted as a sign of climate change....
It is indeed too early to have any formal research papers on this subject. At this stage we can present only some suggestions for investigation in the next few months.
One of the most interesting of them is establishing the influence of the changing circulation on the transport of the Saharan dust over the Atlantic Ocean.
There is an evidence that the presence of fine particles in the atmosphere impedes hurricane activity
http://www.bviddm.com/saharan-dust-impedes-hurricane-activity/
In the case of the 2017 hurricane season there was no drying influence of dust particles; this accelerated more intensive development of the convective systems
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/08/hurricane-irma-many-hurricanes-will-future-asked-experts/
The recent review of the role of the dust particles in controlling the climatic system
https://phys.org/news/2016-03-saharan-insights-impact-future-climate.html
provides further mechanisms to consider when studying the hurricanes affecting the eastern part of North America.
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