Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Northwestern Pacific tropical cyclone activity enhanced by increased Asian dust emissions during the Little Ice Age

  • Yang Yang,
  • David J. W. Piper,
  • Min Xu,
  • Jianhua Gao,
  • Jianjun Jia,
  • Alexandre Normandeau,
  • Dongdong Chu,
  • Liang Zhou,
  • Ya Ping Wang,
  • Shu Gao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29386-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Here, the authors show that enhanced tropical cyclone activity was synchronized with increased Asian dust emissions during the Little Ice Age, implying a mechanism linking tropical cyclone climatology to Asian dust levels, at 100 to 1000 year scales.