Quantifying historical trends in tropical cyclone activity has proved difficult, but a new reconstruction reveals a clear global decline over the past century, driven by an increasingly cyclone-hostile environment in the troposphere.
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Baker, A.J. Global decline in frequency. Nat. Clim. Chang. 12, 615–617 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01414-5
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