Fig. 1: Increasing cost of damages associated with tropical cyclones (TC) in East Asia (EA). | npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Fig. 1: Increasing cost of damages associated with tropical cyclones (TC) in East Asia (EA).

From: Increasing activity of tropical cyclones in East Asia during the mature boreal autumn linked to long-term climate variability

Fig. 1

a TC tracks during September−October (SO) in East Asia (red), Southeast Asia (cyan), and the open ocean (blue). The gray dashed lines represent the 225 km (175 km) buffer zone away from the nearest coastlines of Japan (Taiwan). b Mean monthly TC passage frequency in indicated domains. c TC-associated cost of damages in EA from June−October (cyan) and SO (red). The thick (thin) line represents the timeseries of the 1-3-4-3-1 filtered (raw) TC-associated cost of damages. The black dashed lines indicate the abrupt regime shift in mean TC-associated cost of damages during the Period 1 (1981−1997) and Period 2 (1998−2019), respectively. Significance is tested using student’s t-test statistic with two-tailed distribution.

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