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This study is to investigate the tropical cyclone (TC) activity over the Arabian Sea (AS). The idea of the topic rose from the work done by Chan (2005) on interannual and interdecadal variations of TC activity over the western North Pacific (WNP). In his study, Chan (2005) reviewed the Interannual and Interdecadal variations in tropical cyclone (TC) activity over the WNP and emphasized that the Interannual variations could largely be explained by changes in the planetary-scale flow patterns. Sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) in the WNP, however, did not contribute to such variations. Rather, SSTs in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific were significantly correlated with TC activity over the WNP. Changes in the SST in the equatorial Pacific were found to be in relation with the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, and modifications of the planetary-scale flow associated with ENSO altered the conditions over the WNP and hence TC activity there.
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The authors acknowledge the National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) for their reanalysis data, the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC) at the University of Colorado at Boulder for their freely available wavelets test and Pakistan Meteorological Department for the rain fall data of Pakistan.
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Khatri, W.D., Xiefei, Z., Ling, Z. (2015). Interannual and Interdecadal Variations in Tropical Cyclone Activity over the Arabian Sea and the Impacts over Pakistan. In: Ray, K., Mohapatra, M., Bandyopadhyay, B., Rathore, L. (eds) High-Impact Weather Events over the SAARC Region. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10217-7_9
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