Atlantic hurricanes and climate over the past 1,500 years

Michael E. Mann (), Jonathan D. Woodruff, Jeffrey P. Donnelly and Zhihua Zhang
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Michael E. Mann: Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Jonathan D. Woodruff: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
Jeffrey P. Donnelly: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
Zhihua Zhang: Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Nature, 2009, vol. 460, issue 7257, 880-883

Abstract: Tropical cyclones in context A new reconstruction of Atlantic basin-wide hurricane occurrences for the past 1,500 years shows that although recent hurricane activity is unusually high, activity during the medieval warm period around AD 1000 was as high or even higher. The reconstructions are based on two independent techniques: a composite of regional sedimentary evidence of landfalling hurricanes and a statistical model of Atlantic tropical cyclone activity driven by proxy reconstructions of past climate changes.

Date: 2009
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