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Effects of Long-term Climate Change on Typhoon Rainfall Associated with Southwesterly Monsoon Flow near Taiwan: Mindulle (2004) and Morakot (2009)

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Data availability

Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau (CWB) and the JMA provide the observation data. The CReSS model and its user guide are available at http://www.rain.hyarc.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~tsuboki/cress_html/index_cress_eng.html. The NCEP FNL and EC-YOTC data are from http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds335.0/#!description and https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds629.0/#!description, and the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data are from https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.ncep.reanalysis.html.

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The authors thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions. Figures 4a–d are from the Naval Research Laboratory of the USA. Taiwan’s National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC) and the College of Science of National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) provide the computational resources. This study is jointly supported by the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) of Taiwan, under Grants MOST 108-2111-M-003-005-MY2, MOST 109-2625-M-003-001, MOST 111-2111-M-003-005, NSTC 112-2111-M-003-005 of Dr. Wang, and MOST 108-2625-M-003-003, and MOST 109-2625-M-003-003, MOST 110-2625-M-003-003, MOST 111-2625-M-003-003, NSTC 112-2625-M-003-001 of Dr. Tseng.

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