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Tempests in time

The frequency of severe hurricanes in the North Atlantic has increased during the past decade. Scrutiny of the prehistoric record left by such storms helps to assess the factors contributing to hurricane activity.

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Figure 1: One for the modern record.

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Elsner, J. Tempests in time. Nature 447, 647–649 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/447647a

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