Increased typhoon activity in the Pacific deep tropics driven by Little Ice Age circulation changes

Northwestern Pacific typhoon intensity controlled by changes in ocean temperatures

Dominant climatic factors controlling the lifetime peak intensity of typhoons are determined from six decades of Pacific typhoon data. We find that upper ocean temperatures in the low-latitude northwestern Pacific (LLNWP) and sea surface temperatures in the central equatorial Pacific control the seasonal average lifetime peak intensity by setting the rate and duration of typhoon intensification...

Little Ice Age

Volume 1, The Earth system: physical and chemical dimensions of global environmental change, pp 504–509

Was a change in thermohaline circulation responsible for the Little Ice Age?

L ('800-year) and short-term ('20-year) estimates of the rate of deep water formation in the Southern Ocean are in serious disagreement. This disagreement suggests to me that the rate of deep water formation may have been larger during the Little Ice Age (LIA) than it is now. Based on studies of ice-rafted debris in northern Atlantic sediments, a strong case (1) has been made that a cycle avera...

Wetland-dryland Vegetational Dynamics in the Pennsylvanian Ice Age Tropics

Future changes to the Indonesian Throughflow and Pacific circulation: The differing role of wind and deep circulation changes

Climate models consistently project a substantial decrease in the Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) in response to enhanced greenhouse warming. On interannual timescales ITF changes are largely related to tropical Pacific wind variability. However, on the multidecadal timescales investigated here we demonstrate that regional winds and associated changes in the upper ocean circulation cannot explain ...