Abstract
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 two recent review articles (Chan 2004, 2005) have summarized most of the research on this topic up to around 2002, this paper will only discuss the studies that came after this time. Readers interested in the earlier works can consult these two articles. Section 2 discusses the variations of TC numbers and number of intense TCs and how they might or might not be related to global warming. Variations of TC tracks and landfall locations are presented in Section 3. A summary is then given in Section 4. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Indian Ocean Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change |
| Editors | Yassine Charabi |
| Place of Publication | Dordrecht;London |
| Publisher | Springer Netherlands |
| Pages | 37-46 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-90-481-3109-9 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-90-481-3108-2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 10 Mar 2010 |
Research Keywords
- Annual TC numbers
- Tropospheric relative vorticity