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Slowdown in Landfalling Tropical Cyclone Motion in South China

Study key findings & significance

  • Translation speed of landfalling tropical cyclones in south China has experienced a significant slowdown by 1.2 m s−1 during 1979–2019

  • The slowdown is a balance of the opposite effects of the negative phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the Indian Ocean sea surface temperature warming

  • The results suggest that the effects of climate change and natural variability on tropical cyclone translation speed can offset each other


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Increase in Intraseasonal Rainfall Driven by the Arabian Sea Warming in Recent Decades

Study key findings & significance

  • The heavy rainfall at intraseasonal timescale is intensified over the northeastern Arabian Sea (AS)

  • Increased intraseasonal rainfall is linked to the intensified upward moisture transport by the intraseasonal vertical wind velocity

  • The AS warming and poleward movement of low-level jet jointly strengthen the cyclonic wind convergence in the planetary boundary layer


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Economic losses from hurricanes cannot be nationally offset under unabated warming

Study key findings & significance

  • Hurricane damages can increase due to increasing global temperatures, caused by greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels.

  • Computer simulations of regional economic sectors and supply chains in the US now show that the resulting economic losses can at some point not be nationally offset under unabated warming. 

  • The hurricane impacts under global warming will thus give the US an economic disadvantage.

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