A 1,000-year history of typhoon landfalls in Guangdong, Southern China, reconstructed from Chinese historical documentary records

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 453-464

  Liu, Kam biu ^a   Shen, Caiming ^a   Louie, Kin sheun ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

China; Climate variability; Historical climatology; Typhoons

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TYPHOON;

CHINA; GUANGDONG PROVINCE;

EID: 0035470471     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0004-5608.00253     Document Type: Article

References (84)

1. Beijing Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1985. Combined catalog of Chinese local gazettes (in Chinese). Beijing: Zhong Hua Bookstore.
2. Caviedes, C. N. 1991. Five hundred years of hurricanes in the Caribbean: Their relationship with global climate variabilities. GeoJournal 23:301-10.
3. Central Meteorological Bureau. 1982. Atlas of flood and drought in China in the last 500 years (in Chinese). Beijing: Map Press.
4. Chan, J. C. L. 1985. Tropical cyclone activity in the Northwest Pacific in relation to the El Niño/Southern Oscillation phenomenon. Monthly Weather Review 113:599-606.
5. Chan, J. C. L. 1995. Tropical cyclone activity in the western North Pacific in relation to the stratospheric quasibiennial oscillation. Monthly Weather Review 123:2567-71.
6. Chan, J. C. L., and J. E. Shi. 2000. Frequency of typhoon landfall over Guangdong Province of China during the period 1470-1931. International Journal of Climatology 20:183-90.
7. Chen, J. 1989. A preliminary research on the regularity and factors of changes of flood and drought in Taihu Lake Basin since the Southern Song Dynasty (in Chinese). Acta Geographica Sinica 9:25-33.
8. Chin, P. C. 1972. Tropical cyclone climatology for the China seas and western Pacific from 1884 to 1970. Vol. 1, Basic data. Royal Observatory Technical Memoir no. 11. Hong Kong: Royal Observatory.
9. Diaz, H. F., and R. S. Pulwarty, eds. 1997. Hurricanes: Climate and socioeconomic impacts. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
10. Dong, K., and G. J. Holland. 1994. A global view of the relationship between ENSO and tropical cyclone frequencies. Acta Meteorologica Sinica 8:19-29.
11. Elsner, J. B., and A. B. Kara. 1999. Hurricanes of the North Atlantic: Climate and society. New York: Oxford University Press.
12. Elsner, J. B., K-b. Liu, and B. Kocher. 2000. Spatial variations in major U.S. hurricane activity: Statistics and a physical mechanism. Journal of Climate 13:2293-305.
13. Emanuel, K. A. 1988. Towards a general theory of hurricanes. American Scientist 76:371-79.
14. Emanuel, K. A. 1997. Climate variations and hurricane activity: Some theoretical issues. In Hurricanes: Climate and socioeconomic impacts, ed. H. F. Diaz and R. S. Pulwarty, pp. 55-65. Berlin: Springer-Verlag,
15. Evans, J. L., and R. J. Allen. 1992. El Niño/Southern Oscillation modification to the structure of the monsoon and tropical activity in the Australian region. International Journal of Climatology 12:611-23.
16. Fujita, T. T. 1971. Proposed characterization of tornadoes and hurricanes by area and intensity. Satellite and Mesometereology Research Project paper 91. Chicago: Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago.
17. Garcia, R. R., H. F. Diaz, R. G. Herrera, J. Eischeid, M. d. R. Prieto, E. Hernandez, L. Gimeno, F. R. Duran, and A. M. Bascary. In press. Atmospheric circulation changes in the tropical Pacific inferred from the voyages of the Manila Galleon in the 16th-18th centuries. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
18. Goldenberg, S. B., and L. J. Shapiro. 1996. Physical mechanisms for the association of El Niño and West African rainfall with Atlantic major hurricane activity. Journal of Climate 9:1169-87.
19. Gong, G. F., and S. Hameed. 1991. The variation of moisture conditions in China during the last 2000 years. International Journal of Climatology 11:271-83.
20. Gray, W. M. 1968. Global view of the origins of tropical disturbances and storms. Monthly Weather Review 96:669-700.
21. Gray, W. M. 1979. Hurricanes: Their formation, structure, and likely role in the tropical circulation. In Meteorology over the tropical oceans, ed. D. B. Shaw, pp. 155-218. London: Royal Meteorology Society.
22. Gray, W. M. 1990. Strong association between West African rainfall and U.S. landfall of intense hurricanes. Science 249:1251-56.
23. Gray, W. M., J. D. Sheaffer, and C. W. Landsea. 1997. Climate trends associated with multidecadal variability of Atlantic hurricane activity. In Hurricanes: Climate and socioeconomic impacts, ed. H. F. Diaz and R. S. Pulwarty, pp. 15-53. Berlin: Springer-Verlag,
24. Guangdong Sheng Ziran Zaihai Dituji Editorial Board. 1995. Atlas of natural disasters in Guangdong. Guangzhou: Guangdong Maps Press.
25. Henderson-Sellers, A., H. Zhang, G. Berg, K. Emanuel, W. Gray, C. Landsea, G. Holland, J. Lighthill, S.-L. Shieh, P. Webster, and K. McGuffle. 1998. Tropical cyclones and global climate change: A post-IPCC assessment. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 79:19-38.
26. Hughes, M. K., X. D. Wu, X. M. Shao, and G. M. Garfin. 1994. A preliminary reconstruction of rainfall in north-central China since AD 1600 from tree-ring density and width. Quaternary Research 42:88-99.
27. Huizhou Fu Zhi (Huizhou district gazette) (in Chinese). 1881. Reprint, Huizhou: Wen Chang Temple.
28. Jiao, B., ed. 1984. Atlas of the physical geography of China. Beijing: Maps Press.
29. Jury, M. 1993. A preliminary study of climatological associations and characteristics of tropical cyclones in the SW Indian Ocean. Meteorological and Atmospheric Physics 51:101-15.
30. Keigwin, L. D. 1996. The Little Ice Age and medieval warm period in the Sargasso Sea. Science 274:1504-8.
31. Lai, X. 1995. The Chinese local gazettes (in Chinese). Taipei: The Commercial Press.
32. Lander, M. 1994. An exploratory analysis of the relationship between tropical storm formation in the western North Pacific and ENSO. Monthly Weather Review 122:636-51.
33. Landsea, C. W. 2000. Climate variability of tropical cyclones: Past, present, and future. In Storms, ed. R. A. Pielke, Sr. and R. A. Pielke, Jr., pp. 220-41. New York: Routledge.
34. Landsea, C. W., and W. M. Gray. 1992. The strong association between western Sahel monsoon rainfall and intense Atlantic hurricanes. Journal of Climate 5:435-53.
35. Landsea, C. W., W. M. Gray, P. W. Mielke, Jr., and K. J. Berry. 1992. Long-term variations of western Sahelian monsoon rainfall and intense U.S. landfalling hurricanes. Journal of Climate 5:1528-34.
36. Lee, K., and S. I. Hsu. 1989. Typhoon records from ancient chronicles of Guangdong Province (in Chinese). Department of Geography Occasional Paper 98. Hong Kong: Department of Geography, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
37. Liang, B. Q., and J. C. Ye. 1993. The natural disaster of Guangdong Province (in Chinese). Shaoguan: Guangdong People's Press.
38. Lighthill, J., G. Holland, W. Gray, C. Landsea, G. Craig, J. Evans, Y. Kurihara, and C. Guard. 1994. Global climate change and tropical cyclones. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 75:2147-57.
39. Liu, K-b. 1999. Millennial-scale variability in catastrophic hurricane landfalls along the Gulf of Mexico coast. Preprint volume of the 23rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 10-15 January, Dallas, Texas, pp. 374-77. Boston: American Meteorological Society.
40. Liu, K-b. 2000. Paleotempestology: Reconstruction of past hurricane landfalls from sedimentary proxy records. In Science in an uncertain millennium: 2000 AAAS Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition, ed. R. Paulson, p. A20. Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science.
41. Liu, K-b., and M. L. Fearn. 1993. Lake-sediment record of late Holocene hurricane activities from coastal Alabama. Geology 21:793-96.
42. Liu, K-b., and M. L. Fearn. 2000a. Holocene history of catastrophic hurricane landfalls along the Gulf of Mexico coast reconstructed from coastal lake and marsh sediments. In Current stresses and potential vulnerabilities: Implications of global change for the Gulf Coast region of the United States, ed. Z. H. Ning and K. Abdollahi, pp. 38-47. Baton Rouge, LA: Franklin Press.
43. Liu, K-b., and M. L. Fearn. 2000b. Reconstruction of prehistoric landfall frequencies of catastrophic hurricanes in northwestern Florida from lake sediment records. Quaternary Research 54:238-45.
44. Louie, K. S., and K-b. Liu. 2001. Earliest historical records of typhoon in ancient China. Abstracts, 98th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 28 February-3 March, New York.
45. Ludlam, D. M. 1963. Early American hurricanes, 1492-1870. Boston: American Meteorological Society.
46. Mann, M. E., R. S. Bradley, and M. K. Hughes. 1999. Northern hemisphere temperatures during the past millennium: Inferences, uncertainties, and limitations. Geophysical Research Letters 26:759-62.
47. Millas, J. C. 1968. Hurricanes of the Caribbean and adjacent regions, 1492-1800. Miami: Academy of the Arts and Sciences of the Americas.
48. Ming Shi (Ming History) (in Chinese). 1974. Reprint, Beijing: Chung Hwa Books Company.
49. Minobe, S. 1997. A 50-70 year climatic oscillation over the North Pacific and North America. Geophysical Research Letters 24:683-86.
50. Minobe, S. 1999. Resonance in bidecadal and pentadecadal climate oscillations over the North Pacific: Role in climatic regime shifts. Geophysical Research Letters 26:855-58.
51. Neumann, C. J., B. R. Jarvinen, C. J. McAdie, and G. R. Hammer. 1999. Tropical cyclones of the North Atlantic Ocean, 1871-1998. 5th ed. Asheville, NC: National Climate Data Center.
52. Nicholls, N. 1984. The Southern Oscillation, sea surface temperature, and interannual fluctuations in Australian tropical cyclone activity. International Journal of Climatology 4:661-70.
53. Pan, Y. 1981. The effect of the thermal state of eastern equatorial Pacific on the frequency of typhoons over western Pacific (in Chinese). Acta Meteorologica Sinica 40:24-32.
54. Pielke, R. A., Jr., and R. A. Pielke, Sr., eds. 1997. Hurricanes: Their nature and impacts on society. Chichester: Wiley.
55. Puning Xian Zhi (Puning county gazette) (in Chinese). 1974. Reprint, Taipei: Cheng Wem Publishing Company.
56. Qiao, S. X., and W. Y. Tang. 1993. Compilation and research of climatic data from historical records of the Guangzhou area (in Chinese). Guangzhou: Guangdong People's Press.
57. Qin, G. 1994. A guide to the precious archives of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (in Chinese). Beijing: People's Press.
58. Revelle, C. G., and S. W. Goulter. 1986. South Pacific tropical cyclones and the Southern Oscillation. Monthly Weather Review 114:1138-45.
59. Song Shi (Song history) (in Chinese). 1985. Reprint, Beijing: Chung Hwa Book Company.
60. SPSS for Windows Version 8.0. SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, U.S.
61. STATISTICA for Windows Version 4.5. StatSoft, Tulsa, OK, U.S.
62. Stuiver, M., and P. D. Quay. 1980. Changes in atmospheric carbon-14 attributed to a variable sun. Science 207:11-19.
63. Unisys. 2000. Hurricane/tropical data. http://weather.unisys.com/ hurricane/index.html (last accessed 22 May 2001).
64. Wang, J. Z. 1991. Typhoon activity in the western North Pacific for the last hundred years (in Chinese). Beijing: China Ocean Press.
65. Wang, P. K. 1979. Meteorological records from ancient chronicles of China. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 60:313-18.
66. Wang, P. K. 1980. On the relationship between winter thunder and the climatic change in China in the past 2200 years. Climatic Change 3:37-46.
67. Wang, P. K., and J. H. Chu. 1982. Unusual lightning events in ancient Chinese literature. Weatherwise 35:119-22.
68. Wang, P. K., and D. Zhang. 1988. An introduction to some historical governmental weather records of China. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 69:753-58.
69. Wang, P. K., and D. Zhang. 1991. Reconstruction of the eighteenth-century precipitation of Nanjing, Suzhou, and Hangzhou using the clear and rain records. In Climate since 1500 AD, ed. R. S. Bradley and P. D. Jones, pp. 184-209. London: Routledge.
70. Wang, P. K., and D. Zhang. 1992. Recent studies of the reconstruction of East Asian monsoon climate in the past using historical literature of China. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan 70:423-45.
71. Wang, S. M. 1981. Introduction to major Chinese history works (in Chinese). Beijing: Zhong Hua Bookstore.
72. Wang, S. W, and Z. Zhao. 1981. Droughts and floods in China, 1470-1979. In Climate and history, ed. T. M. L. Wigley, M. J. Ingram, and G. Farmer, pp. 271-88. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
73. Wang, W. C., D. Portman, G. Gong, P. Zhang, and T. Karl. 1992. Beijing summer temperatures since 1724. In Climate since 1500 AD, ed. R. S. Bradley and P. D. Jones, pp. 210-23. London: Routledge.
74. Zhang, D. 1980. Winter temperature variation during the last 500 years in southern China. Kexue Tongbao 25:497-500.
75. Zhang, D. 1984. Synoptic-climatic studies of dust fall in China since historic times. Scientia Sinica B27:825-36.
76. Zhang, D. 1991a. Historical records of climate change in China. Quaternary Science Reviews 10:551-54.
77. Zhang, D. 1991b. The Little Ice Age climate of China and its relation with the global change (in Chinese). Quaternary Science 2:104-12.
78. Zhang, D., and C. Liu. 1987. Reconstruction of summer temperature series (1724-1903) in Beijing. Kexue Tongbao 32:1046-49.
79. Zhang, D., and P. K. Wang. 1989. Reconstruction of the eighteenth-century summer monthly precipitation series of Nanjing, Suzhou, and Hangzhou using the clear and rain records of Ching Dynasty. Acta Meteorologica Sinica 3:261-78.
80. Zhang, D., and P. K. Wang. 1991. A study on the reconstruction of the eighteenth-century Meiyu activity of Lower Yangtze region of China. Scientia Sinica B34:1237-45.
81. Zhang, J., and T. J. Crowley. 1989. Historical climate records in China and reconstruction of past climates. Journal of Climate 2:833-49.
82. Zhang, J., S. Zhang, and X. Xu. 1988. Droughts and floods in China during the recent 500 years. In The reconstruction of climate in China for historical times, ed. J. Zhang, pp. 40-55. Beijing: Science Press.
83. Zhou, X. 1994. The local gazettes of China (in Chinese). Taipei: The Commercial Press.
84. Zhuang, J. 1983. An introduction to the palace archives (in Chinese). Taipei: National Palace Museum.