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Interdecadal Variation of Tropical Cyclone Genesis Frequency over the Western North Pacific  

Choi, Ki-Seon (기상청 국립기상연구소)
Kim, Baek-Jo (기상청 국립기상연구소 정책연구과)
Lee, Seong-Lo (국립목포대학교 내풍기술연구단)
Park, Jong-Kil (인제대학교 환경공학부/대학원 대기환경정보공학과)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation / v.9, no.6, 2009 , pp. 31-39 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study has found that there is a reverse phase with interdecadal variation in temporal variations of tropical cyclone (TC) genesis frequency (TCGF) between Northwest sector and Southeast sector, based on climatological mean tropical cyclone genesis location over the western North Pacific. The TCGF in the Northwest sector has been increased since the mid 1980s (1986-2005), while TCGF in the Southeast sector was higher until the early 1970s (1951-1970). The analysis of a difference between 1986-2005 and 1951-1970 showed results as follows: i) Through the analysis of vertical wind shear (VWS) and sea surface temperature (SST), less VWS and higher SST in the former (latter) period was located in the Northwest (Southeast) sector. ii) In the analysis of TC passage frequency (TCPF), TCs occurred in the Northwest sector frequently passed from east sea of the Philippines, through East China Sea, to Korea and Japan in the latter period, while TCs in the former period frequently has a lot of influences on South China Sea (SCS). In the case of TCs occurred in the Southeast sector, TCs in the west (east), based on $150^{\circ}E$ had a high passage frequency in the latter (former) period. In particular, TCs during the latter period frequently moved toward from the east sea of the Philippines to SCS and southern China. iii) This difference of TCPF between the two periods was characterized by 500 hPa anomalous pressure pattern. Particularly, anomalous cyclonic circulation strengthened over the East Asian continent caused anomalous southerlies along the East Asian coast line from the east sea of the Philippines to be predominate. These anomalous winds served as steering flows that TC can easily move toward same regions.
Keywords
Interdecadal variation; Genesis frequency; Tropical cyclone;
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