Large, abrupt, and widespread climate changes with major impacts have occurred
repeatedly in the past, when the Earth system was forced across thresholds. Although abrupt …

The effect of climate change on tropical cyclone intensity has been an important scientific
issue for a few decades. Although theory and modeling suggest the intensification of tropical …

We examine the impact of typhoons on local economic activity in coastal China. To capture
potential damages from an individual typhoon we use historical typhoon track data in …

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 …

There is a growing interest for marine flooding related to recent catastrophic events and their
unintended consequences in terms of casualties and damages, and to the increasing …

Modern typhoon data and historical documents from Guangdong Province, southern China,
are analyzed and found to support the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-typhoon …

Sediment cores from two coastal lakes located on the island of Kamikoshiki in southwestern
Japan (Lake Namakoike and Lake Kaiike) provide evidence for the response of a …

▪ Abstract Many aspects of Earth's climate system have changed abruptly in the past and are
likely to change abruptly in the future. Although abrupt shifts in temperature are most …

Climate extremes, particularly the droughts sustaining over a prolonged period and affecting
extended area (defined as “exceptional drought events”), can have long-lasting effects on …

This book provides a synthesis of the past decade of research into global changes that
occurred in the earth system in the past. Focus is achieved by concentrating on those …