caa a22 4500 445300264 CHVBK 20180317142555.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20101001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11430-010-4034-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11430-010-4034-8 Impact of landfalling tropical cyclones in mainland China [Elektronische Daten] [QingHong Zhang, Qing Wei, LianShou Chen] Tropical cyclones (TCs) have a significant impact on mainland China. The purpose of this study is to develop an impact index which correlates with both the strong wind and heavy rainfall/flood damage caused by TCs in mainland China. By considering the radius of TCs, we first define the total destructiveness index (TDI) and total column water vapor index (TVI). Economic loss is used to represent the impact of landfalling TCs. The analysis is based on 30 landfalling TCs between 2001 and 2007, and identified significant correlations between the impact of landfalling TCs and the TVI (TDI). The correlations between the impact of landfalling TCs and TVI, TDI and maximum wind speed of TCs before landfall are 0.751, 0.59 and 0.345, respectively. This study also shows that landfalling TCs with a higher TVI usually bring heavier rainfall, and result in more economic losses in China. A TC impact index is defined as a function of TVI and TDI. The correlation between TC impact index and economic loss was found to be significant (r=0.769). Tropical storm Bilis in 2006 is classified as the landfalling TC with the highest impact index between 2001 and 2007 and Matsa, in 2005, as the second highest impact index in this same interval. Using a system cluster analysis method, 30 landfalling TCs in this study were graded into five categories according to their impact indices. Category 5, which is the highest level, included only one TC, which constituted 4% of the total TCs studied. Category 4 included three TCs (10%). Categories 3 and 2 included seven TCs each (23%) and Category 1 included 12 TCs (40%). Science China Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010 tropical cyclones nationallicence impact index nationallicence water vapor nationallicence economic loss nationallicence Zhang QingHong Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, School of Physics, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China aut Wei Qing Meteorological Center, Chinese Meteorological Agency, 100081, Beijing, China aut Chen LianShou Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, 100081, Beijing, China aut Science China Earth Sciences SP Science China Press 53/10(2010-10-01), 1559-1564 1674-7313 53:10<1559 2010 53 11430 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-010-4034-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-010-4034-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zhang QingHong Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, School of Physics, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wei Qing Meteorological Center, Chinese Meteorological Agency, 100081, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chen LianShou Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, 100081, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Science China Earth Sciences SP Science China Press 53/10(2010-10-01), 1559-1564 1674-7313 53:10<1559 2010 53 11430 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer