Open AccessThe storm activities in the West Pacific from 1980 to 2018
Author(s) -
Siwen Chen
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/508/1/012112
Subject(s) - storm , precipitation , tropical cyclone , climatology , environmental science , storm track , cyclone (programming language) , water column , sea surface temperature , oceanography , geography , meteorology , geology , field programmable gate array , computer science , computer hardware
The storm is an important weather system that significantly affects socioeconomics and human living. This study uses the global tropical cyclone best track data from IBTrACS, along with other meteorological states from ECMWF ERA-5 reanalysis from 1980 to 2018. In the West Pacific, storms are more likely to occur in summer (July, August and September). During the 39-year period, the occurrence of storm activities tends to be less frequent in summer, accompanied by increased sea surface temperature, total precipitation and total column water. It is also found that the storm number exhibited a high correlation with sea surface temperature, surface pressure, total precipitation and total column water in the middle West Pacific as well as the sea of Okhotsk in summer.