More than unfamiliar environmental connection to super typhoon climatology

Namyoung Kang; Chan Joo Jang; James B Elsner

doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33104-3

More than unfamiliar environmental connection to super typhoon climatology

Sci Rep. 2023 Apr 19;13(1):6372. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-33104-3.

Authors

Namyoung Kang^#¹, Chan Joo Jang^{2

3}, James B Elsner^#⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Geography, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 41566, South Korea. nkang4@knu.ac.kr.
² Department of Oceanography, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34113, South Korea.
³ Ocean Circulation Research Division, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Busan, 49111, South Korea.
⁴ Department of Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 32306, FL, USA. jelsner@fsu.edu.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

This study employs a refined geometric variability model to look at the environmental relationship to super typhoon climatology, which is one of the major concerns about climate change and disasters. It is noted that adding only several recent years leads to a remarkable weakening of the environmental explanatory power on super typhoon climatology. Looking into the annual covariance elements, we find that the recent observations showing a group of outlying events with a particular drift are more than unfamiliar compared to the former stable relationship from 1985 through 2012. Greater uncertainty thereby amplifies concerns about the looming climate crisis.