articleJournal of ClimateAug 1, 2005BRONZE OA

Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Intensity and ENSO

SJSuzana J. CamargoAHAdam H. Sobel

Columbia University

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Abstract

Abstract The influence of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on tropical cyclone intensity in the western North Pacific basin is examined. Accumulated cyclone energy (ACE), constructed from the best-track dataset for the region for the period 1950–2002, and other related variables are analyzed. ACE is positively correlated with ENSO indices. This and other statistics of the interannually varying tropical cyclone distribution are used to show that there is a tendency in El Niño years toward tropical cyclones that are both more intense and longer-lived than in La Niña years. ACE leads ENSO indices: during the peak season (northern summer and fall), ACE is correlated approximately as strongly with ENSO…

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  • Climatology
  • Tropical cyclone
  • El Niño Southern Oscillation
  • Multivariate ENSO index
  • Environmental science
  • Tropical cyclone rainfall forecasting
  • African easterly jet
  • Tropical cyclogenesis
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