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Pao-Shin Chu is a Professor and Hawaii State Climatologist at the University of Hawaii. He was the NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in 1994/5 and was appointed as Chair Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the National Taiwan University in 2019. His research interests lie in the areas of tropical climate variability and change, tropical cyclones, statistical modelling and extreme events, and he teaches several related graduate-level courses including Tropical Climate and Weather, Monsoon Meteorology, and Statistical Meteorology.Hiroyuki Murakami is a research scientist at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Plainsboro, New Jersey. He was a contributing author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 5th Scientific Assessment (AR5, 2013) and been identified as one of the 500 most influential climate scientists by Reuters. His research interests include tropical cyclone climate projections, extreme events and numerical weather prediction.
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A comprehensive summary of tropical cyclone variability at time scales from intraseasonal and interannual to interdecadal and centennial. Major climate oscillations (Madden-Julian, El Niño, Atlantic Meridional Mode and Pacific Decadal) are covered, and their impacts on tropical cyclone activity in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans are discussed.
