Date: April 24, 2019
Venue: Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University
About the symposium
Typhoons are one of the most devastating forces of nature. Typhoon landfall regularly causes enormous destruction in large parts of SE Asia, and often result in thousands of casualties. However, despite their obvious importance, our understanding of how typhoon intensity, frequency, and spatial distribution respond to changes in the global climate system is still limited.
In this symposium, we bring together expertise from modern observations, climate modeling, and natural archives of past typhoon variability, with the goal to identify feasible ways to address typhoon variability as a function of global, regional, and local climate conditions.