Northwestern Pacific typhoon intensity controlled by changes in ocean temperatures

Mei, Wei; Xie, Shang‐Ping; Primeau, François; McWilliams, James C.; Pasquero, Claudia

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“…Note that the Northwest Pacific is the region which has the most intense TCs among all basins, followed by the North Atlantic. The evolution of TC intensity depends mainly on three factors: its initial intensity, dynamic and thermodynamic state of the atmosphere, and heat exchange with the upper ocean (Emanuel, 1988(Emanuel, , 1999(Emanuel, , 2005Lin et al, 2013;Mei et al, 2015). Fig.…”

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Observed strong currents under global tropical cyclones

Chang

Tseng

Chu

et al. 2016

Journal of Marine Systems

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Observed strong currents under global tropical cyclones

Chang

Tseng

Chu

et al. 2016

Journal of Marine Systems

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“…climate-related natural disasters is predicted to rise as temperatures increase, with the prospect of significant negative effects on economic growth (Mei et al (2015); Mendelsohn et al (2015); Felbermayr and Groschl (2014); Alano and Lee (2016) ;Ferreira and Karali (2015)). Indeed, Fig-ure 2 shows the increase in economic losses due to major weather-related events over the last five decades.…”

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Climate Vulnerability and the Cost of Debt

Kling

Lo²,

Murinde

et al. 2018

SSRN Journal

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We use indices from the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative to investigate the impact of climate vulnerability on bond yields. Our methodology invokes panel ordinary least squares with robust standard errors and principal component analysis. The latter serves to address the multicollinearity between a set of vulnerability measures. We find that countries with higher exposure to climate vulnerability, such as the member countries of the V20 climate vulnerable forum, exhibit 1.174 percent higher cost of debt on average. This effect is significant after accounting for a set of macroeconomic controls. Specifically, we estimate the incremental debt cost due to higher climate vulnerability, for the V20 countries, to have exceeded USD 62 billion over the last ten years. In other words, for every ten dollars they pay in interest cost, they pay another dollar for being climate vulnerable. We also find that a measure of social readiness, which includes education and infrastructure, has a negative and significant effect on bond yields, implying that social and physical investments can mitigate climate risk related debt costs and help to stabilize the cost of debt for vulnerable countries.JEL Classification: G12, H63, Q51

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“…Warming temperatures and shifting precipitation regimes will drive increases in the fire season length [53] and intensify drought severity [37,39]. While projections vary on changes in Pacific tropical cyclogenesis frequency [54,55], tropical cyclones are expected to undergo a poleward shift [55] that may favor increases in eventual North American landfall. Future contributions of remnant typhoon moisture to early water year precipitation could become more important in relieving drought conditions and mitigating wildfire hazard along the west coast of North America, both of which have positive impacts for ecosystems and human life and property.…”

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Snow Level Characteristics and Impacts of a Spring Typhoon-Originating Atmospheric River in the Sierra Nevada, USA

Hatchett

2018

Atmosphere

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Abstract:On 5-7 April 2018, a landfalling atmospheric river resulted in widespread heavy precipitation in the Sierra Nevada of California and Nevada. Observed snow levels during this event were among the highest snow levels recorded since observations began in 2002 and exceeded 2.75 km for 31 h in the northern Sierra Nevada and 3.75 km for 12 h in the southern Sierra Nevada. The anomalously high snow levels and over 80 mm of precipitation caused flooding, debris flows, and wet snow avalanches in the upper elevations of the Sierra Nevada. The origin of this atmospheric river was super typhoon Jelawat, whose moisture remnants were entrained and maintained by an extratropical cyclone in the northeast Pacific. This event was notable due to its April occurrence, as six other typhoon remnants that caused heavy precipitation with high snow levels (mean = 2.92 km) in the northern Sierra Nevada all occurred during October.

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Northwestern Pacific typhoon intensity controlled by changes in ocean temperatures

Abstract: Ocean warming is a predicting factor for typhoon intensity.

Cited by 175 publications

References 82 publications

Observed strong currents under global tropical cyclones

Observed strong currents under global tropical cyclones

Climate Vulnerability and the Cost of Debt

Snow Level Characteristics and Impacts of a Spring Typhoon-Originating Atmospheric River in the Sierra Nevada, USA

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