Northwestern Pacific tropical cyclone activity enhanced by increased Asian dust emissions during the Little Ice Age

Yang Yang (), David J. W. Piper, Min Xu, Jianhua Gao, Jianjun Jia, Alexandre Normandeau, Dongdong Chu, Liang Zhou, Ya Ping Wang and Shu Gao ()
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Yang Yang: School of Marine Science and Engineering, Nanjing Normal University
David J. W. Piper: Natural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic), Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Min Xu: School of Marine Science and Engineering, Nanjing Normal University
Jianhua Gao: School of Geography and Ocean Science, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Coast and Island Development, Nanjing University
Jianjun Jia: State Key Laboratory for Estuarine and Coastal Research, School of Marine Sciences, East China Normal University
Alexandre Normandeau: Natural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic), Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Dongdong Chu: Institute of Physical Oceanography and Remote Sensing, Ocean College, Zhejiang University
Liang Zhou: School of Geography, Geomatics and Planning, Jiangsu Normal University
Ya Ping Wang: School of Geography and Ocean Science, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Coast and Island Development, Nanjing University
Shu Gao: School of Geography and Ocean Science, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Coast and Island Development, Nanjing University

Nature Communications, 2022, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: Abstract Instrumental records reveal that intense tropical cyclone (TC) activity varies with tropical sea surface temperature (SST) on annual-decadal scales. Drivers of intense TC activity at the centennial-millennial scale are less clear, due to the sparseness of pre-observational reconstructions. Here, we present a new 2 kyr continuous activity record of intense TCs from offshore eastern China. Our reconstruction indicates that this site witnessed enhanced TC activity during relatively warm periods, with a widespread increase in TC activity during the later part of the Little Ice Age. This latter observation reveals that enhanced TC activity was synchronized with increased Asian dust emissions during the Little Ice Age. TC activity was also lower in the late Roman Warm Period, when SST was higher but Asian dust emissions were lower than in the early phase. Such patterns suggest a centennial-millennial link between TC climatology and a combination of SST changes and Asian dust levels.

Date: 2022
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