Colorado State University

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Yuhei Takaya and Louis-Philippe Caron and Eric Blake and François Bonnardot and Nicolas Bruneau and Joanne Camp and Johnny Chan and Paul Gregory and Jhordanne J. Jones and Namyoung Kang and Philip J. Klotzbach and Yuriy Kuleshov and Marie-Dominique Leroux and Julia F. Lockwood and Hiroyuki Murakami and Akio Nishimura and Dushmanta R. Pattanaik and Tom J. Philp and Yohan Ruprich-Robert and Ralf Toumi and Frédéric Vitart and Seonghee Won and Ruifen Zhan, : Recent advances in seasonal and multi-annual tropical cyclone forecasting. Tropical Cyclone Research and Review, 12 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcrr.2023.09.003

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    Prior studies have emphasized the influence of the boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation (BSISO) on basin-scale and global-scale tropical cyclones (TCs). An improved understanding of the BSISO’s impact on TCs at various climate time scales will likely lead to improved subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction. This study explores the impact of BSISO interannual variability on western North Pacific (WNP) TCs. We find that interannual meridional variability in the BSISO modulates the meridional migration of WNP TC genesis and is related to changes in BSISO phase structure. These structural changes are characterized by occurrence frequency changes for individual BSISO phases between the equatorial region over the eastern Indian Ocean (EIO)–Maritime Continent (MC) and the subtropical region over the South China Sea (SCS)–western Pacific. This interannual north–south change of the BSISO appears to be associated with changes in sea surface temperature over the MC region and WNP mid-to-low-tropospheric moisture advection, mainly via remote forcing of a Gill-type Rossby response to BSISO convection and a large meridional asymmetry of the low-level background moisture distribution. During years with increased BSISO residence time over the subtropical SCS–western Pacific, more TCs occur over the northern WNP due to TC-favorable BSISO-associated convection and circulation. In contrast, more TCs occur over the southern WNP in years with increased BSISO convection residence time over the equatorial EIO–MC. We find that the increase in frequency of BSISO phase occurrence over the subtropical SCS–western Pacific since the late 1990s has potentially contributed to a recent poleward shift of WNP TC genesis.

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