Accumulated cyclone energy

Despite reports of a relatively active start to the Pacific Tropical Cyclone season, Guy Carpenter’s Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre (GCACIC) has predicted slightly below-average cyclone formations and landfalls for the current season.

Accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) is just one of the measures used to identify how active or severe a tropical cyclone or hurricane season has been. It’s a measure used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to express the activity of individual tropical storms and entire seasons, using an approximation of the energy used […]