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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 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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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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Recent increase in extreme intensity of tropical cyclones making landfall in South China
This study examines the interdecadal variations in the frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones (TCs) making landfall in South China (SC) during the period 1975–2018. The annual frequency shows a decrease ...
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Variations in the power dissipation index in the East Asia region
This study examines the variability of the power dissipation index (PDI) for different regions of the East Asia region during the period 1960–2013. The annual PDI (APDI) in the region is calculated as the sum ...