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Defining the frequency of near‐shore tropical cyclone activity in the eastern North Pacific from historical surface observations (1921–2005)
Author(s) -
Englehart Phil J.,
Lewis Michael D.,
Douglas Arthur V.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/2007gl032546
Subject(s) - tropical cyclone , climatology , shore , term (time) , cyclone (programming language) , data set , period (music) , series (stratigraphy) , geology , environmental science , oceanography , physics , statistics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , field programmable gate array , computer science , acoustics , computer hardware , paleontology
Due in part to limited historical observations, the long‐term variability of tropical cyclone (TC) activity in the eastern North Pacific has received little research attention. This paper outlines features of a long‐term (1921–2005) data set of TC frequency defined in a manner consistent with the quality and availability of historical surface observations. Simple analyses of the data set point to nonrandom behavior in the TC series and suggest that long period variability is an important component of TC activity.