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Evidence of rising and poleward shift of storm surge in western North Pacific in recent decades | ||
Speaker: Prof. Leo OEY, Department of Oceanography, National Sun Yat-sen University Abstract Recently, there has been considerable interest in examining how sea-level extremes due to storm surge may be related to climate change. Evidence of how storm-surge extremes have evolved since the start of the most recent warming of mid-1970s to early 1980s has not been firmly established however. Here we use 64 years (1950-2013) of observations and model simulations, and find evidence of a significant rise in the intensity as well as poleward-shifting of location of typhoon surges in the western North Pacific after 1980s. The rising and poleward-shifting trends are caused by the weakening of the steering flow in the tropics, which is related to climate warming, resulting in slower-moving and longer-lasting typhoons which had shifted northward.
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Date | : | 29 July 2016 (Friday) |
Time | : | 3:30pm |
Venue | : | Room 4472 (Lifts 25-26) |