Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Evolution of tropical cyclone genesis regions during the Cenozoic era

  • Qing Yan,
  • Robert Korty,
  • Zhongshi Zhang,
  • Huijun Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11110-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Model simulations show that tropical cyclones were preferably formed in the Southern Hemisphere during the warmer Early Eocene, but then shifted along a cooling climate across the Cenozoic to the Northern Hemisphere. Today's conditions favoring the western North Pacific as the largest genesis center is a result of closing tropical seaways during the Pliocene.