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J. L. McBride and H. Ramsay, “Relationship between Tropical Cyclone Activity and Sea Surface Temperature in the Southern Hemisphere,” Presented in 2nd International Summit on Hurricanes and Climate Change, May 31–June 5, 2009, Corfu, Greece (in “Aegean Conferences Series-Vol. 41”; p. 23).

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• TITLE: Changes in Tropical Cyclone Number in the Western North Pacific in a Warming Environment as Implied by Classical Thermodynamics

  AUTHORS: Xiaogang Zhou, Chongjian Liu, Ying Liu, Hui Xu, Xiuming Wang

  KEYWORDS: Second Law of Thermodynamics, Global Warming, Thermal Wind Relation, Sea Surface Temperature

  JOURNAL NAME: International Journal of Geosciences, Vol.2 No.1, February 24, 2011

  ABSTRACT: Observational analyses show that the equatorial trough in the western North Pacific (WNP) is a well-known origin for tropical cyclones (TC) which have tended to weaken in intensity and decrease in number during the last several decades under global warming. A scientific problem then arises as to why higher sea surface temperatures (SSTs), one of the necessary conditions for typhoon genesis, can cause a weakened equatorial trough and a decreased TC number. In this paper, the WNP is taken as an example to illustrate a possible mechanism for the above-mentioned seemingly counterintuitive phenomena and explain the causality between the unusually heterogeneous pattern of SSTs in a warming environment and TC number in the WNP. This mechanism is based substantially on the second law of thermodynamics.