Tropical cyclones over the western north Pacific since the mid-19th century
Abstract
Tropical cyclone (TC) activities over the western North Pacific (WNP) and TC landfall in Japan are investigated by collecting historical TC track data and meteorological observation data starting from the mid-nineteenth century. Historical TC track data and TC best track data are merged over the WNP from 1884 to 2018. The quality of historical TC data is not sufficient to count the TC numbers over the WNP due to the lack of spatial coverage and different TC criteria before the 1950s. We focus on TC landfall in Japan using a combination of TC track data and meteorological data observed at weather stations and lighthouses from 1877 to 2019. A unified TC definition is applied to obtain equivalent quality during the whole analysis period. We identify lower annual TC landfall numbers during the 1970s to the 2000s and ……
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Article Information:
Kubota, H., Matsumoto, J., Zaiki, M. et al. Tropical cyclones over the western north Pacific since the mid-nineteenth century. Climatic Change 164, 29 (2021).
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-021-02984-7
