Imperial College London

ProfessorRalfToumi

Faculty of Natural SciencesThe Grantham Institute for Climate Change

Co-Director, Grantham Institute - Climate Change&Environment
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 7668r.toumi Website CV

 
 
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Location

 

713Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Wang:2022:10.1038/s41598-022-09287-6,
author = {Wang, S and Toumi, R},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-022-09287-6},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
title = {More tropical cyclones are striking coasts with major intensities at landfall},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09287-6},
volume = {12},
year = {2022}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB - In this study we show that the number of annual global tropical cyclone (TC) landfalls with major landfall intensity (LI≥50 m s-1) has nearly doubled from 1982 to 2020. The lifetime maximum intensity (LMI) of global major landfalling TCs has been increasing by 0.8 m s-1 per decade (p<0.05), but this significance of intensity change disappears at landfall (0.3 m s-1 per decade, p=0.69). The lack of a significant LI trend is caused by the much larger variance of LI than that of LMI in all basins and explains why a significant count change of TCs with major intensity at landfall has only now emerged. Basin-wide TC trends of intensity and spatial distribution have been reported, but this long-term major TC landfall count change may be the most socio-economic significant.
AU - Wang,S
AU - Toumi,R
DO - 10.1038/s41598-022-09287-6
PY - 2022///
SN - 2045-2322
TI - More tropical cyclones are striking coasts with major intensities at landfall
T2 - Scientific Reports
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09287-6
UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-09287-6
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/96043
VL - 12
ER -