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During all of 2004, the entire Atlantic basin saw nine hurricanes, with six of them reaching major hurricane status.
The last major Western Atlantic basin tsunami event took place in August, 1946.
There has been an "overall increase in Atlantic basin major hurricane activity of the past ten years (1995-2004), " the forecast said.
The early tropical season, June-August, may favor cyclone development in the western Atlantic basin, which can then threaten the Southeast coast.
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They forecast 10 named storms in the Atlantic Basin, of which only four will become hurricanes and two will become major hurricanes.
But "we believe that the Atlantic basin is still in an active hurricane cycle, " William Gray, who co-heads the CSU team, said in December.
"This year, oceanic and atmospheric conditions in the Atlantic basin are expected to produce more and stronger hurricanes, " said Gerry Bell, the center's lead seasonal hurricane forecaster.
The replacement, GOES-14, has already begun snapping pictures of Earth from space to monitor the U.S. eastern coast along with the continental U.S. and Atlantic basin, they added.
Christopher Landsea, a top U.S. expert on the subject, repeatedly notified the IPCC that no research had been conducted to support that claim--not in the Atlantic basin, or in any other basin.
This year marks the first time in recorded history that a tropical storm has formed in both the east Pacific basin and Atlantic basin before the official start of hurricane season, the Hurricane Center said.
"GOES-14 will remain the primary GOES satellite over the Atlantic basin and Continental U.S. until the imager and sounder data issues on GOES-13 can be fully diagnosed and hopefully fixed, " NOAA officials said in the Monday statement.
The mapping was primarily done along the continental slope, where the North American continent ends and drops into the Atlantic Ocean basin.
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The amount of reserves in the pre-salt (Santos Basin, Atlantic Ocean) are impressive, but the matter is when and how these new oil prospects will materialize.
Chevron was partnering with Brazilian oil company Petrobras to drill for hydrocarbons at the Frade Field in the Santos Basin in the Atlantic when the Nov. spill occurred.
And on Thursday, Petrobras announced that it is ready to start commercializing oil and gas its digging up in two fields in the Campos Basin in the Atlantic.
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