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Open AccessA frequent ice-free Arctic is likely to occur before the mid-21st century
Although the trend of sea-ice extent under global warming has been studied extensively in recent years, most climate models have failed to capture the recent rapid change in the Arctic environment, which has b...
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Microphysical Characteristics of Extreme-Rainfall Convection over the Pearl River Delta Region, South China from Polarimetric Radar Data during the Pre-summer Rainy Season
During the pre-summer rainy season, heavy rainfall occurs frequently in South China. Based on polarimetric radar observations, the microphysical characteristics and processes of convective features associated ...
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Recent Unusual Consecutive Spring Tropical Cyclones in North Atlantic and Winter Oceanic Precursor Signals
Although the North Atlantic (NA) hurricane season has been reported to start increasingly early, historical long-term changes in NA spring tropical cyclone (TC) activity have not been examined in previous stud...
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Open AccessUncertainties in tropical cyclone landfall decay
Understanding the responses of landfalling tropical cyclones to a changing climate has been a topic of great interest and research. Among them, the recently reported slowdown of tropical cyclone landfall decay...
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Open AccessImportance of Air-Sea Coupling in Simulating Tropical Cyclone Intensity at Landfall
An atmosphere-only model system for making seasonal prediction and projecting future intensities of landfalling tropical cyclones (TCs) along the South China coast is upgraded by including ocean and wave model...
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Recent Decrease in the Difference in Tropical Cyclone Occurrence between the Atlantic and the Western North Pacific
Climatologically, among all ocean basins, the western North Pacific (WNP) has the largest annual number of tropical cyclones (TCs) of around 26 while the Atlantic has around 13, yielding a difference of 13. Ho...
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Open AccessDynamics and characteristics of dry and moist heatwaves over East Asia
The increasing frequency of heatwaves over East Asia (EA) is impacting agriculture, water management, and people’s livelihood. However, the effect of humidity on high-temperature events has not yet been fully ...
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Preface to the Special Issue: Climate Change and Variability of Tropical Cyclone Activity
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Open AccessGrowing Threat of Rapidly-Intensifying Tropical Cyclones in East Asia
This study examines the long-term change in the threat of landfalling tropical cyclones (TCs) in East Asia over the period 1975–2020 with a focus on rapidly intensifying (RI) TCs. The increase in the annual nu...
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Historical and recent change in extreme climate over East Asia
This is an extended editors’ commentary on the topical collection “Historical and recent change in extreme climate over East Asia”, which collects a total of 15 papers related to the change and variability of ...
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Meridional oscillation of tropical cyclone activity in the western North Pacific during the past 110 years
A prominent meridional oscillation of tropical cyclone (TC) activity in the western North Pacific (WNP) during the past 110 years is identified in this paper. Based on the best-track TC data, the first three E...
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Impacts of Urbanization on the Precipitation Characteristics in Guangdong Province, China
With the development of urbanization, whether precipitation characteristics in Guangdong Province, China, from 1981 to 2015 have changed are investigated using rain gauge data from 76 stations. These character...
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A Method for Diagnosing the Secondary Circulation with Saturated Moist Entropy Structure in a Mature Tropical Cyclone
Under the adiabatic, axisymmetric and steady assumption, a relationship between the saturated moist entropy structure and the secondary circulation in a tropical cyclone (TC) is derived from the continuity equ...
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Sensitivity of the simulation of tropical cyclone size to microphysics schemes
The sensitivity of the simulation of tropical cyclone (TC) size to microphysics schemes is studied using the Advanced Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF). Six TCs during the 2013 western Nor...
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Open AccessNew directions in hydro-climatic histories: observational data recovery, proxy records and the atmospheric circulation reconstructions over the earth (ACRE) initiative in Southeast Asia
The value of historic observational weather data for reconstructing long-term climate patterns and the detailed analysis of extreme weather events has long been recognized (Le Roy Ladurie, 1972; Lamb, 1977). I...
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Dependency of typhoon intensity and genesis locations on El Niño phase and SST shift over the western North Pacific
The effects of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phase and the shifting of the ENSO sea surface temperature (SST) on the intensity of tropical cyclones (TC) have been extensively investigated in terms of...
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Structural changes of a tropical cyclone during landfall: β-plane simulations
This study investigated the effects of landfall on the structure of a tropical cyclone (TC). Numerical simulations were performed using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model on a β-plane. Two landfall experi...
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Influence of South China Sea SST and the ENSO on winter rainfall over South China
The present study investigates the influence of South China Sea (SCS) SST and ENSO on winter (January–February–March; JFM) rainfall over South China and its dynamic processes by using station observations for ...
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Mesoscale vortex generation and merging process: A case study associated with a post-landfall tropical depression
An observational analysis of satellite blackbody temperature (TBB) data and radar images suggests that the mesoscale vortex generation and merging process appeared to be essential for a tropical-depression-rel...
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Global Warming and Tropical Cyclone Activity in the Western North Pacific
This paper provides a summary of some of the recent studies of the climate of tropical cyclone (TC) activity in the Western North Pacific (WNP) region, and its possible relation with global warming. Because tw...