Reply to “Comments on ‘Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge’”
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Kossin, James P.; Karl, Thomas R.; Knutson, Thomas R.; Kunkel, Kenneth E.; O’Brien, James J.; Emanuel, Kerry Andrew; ... Show more Show less
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We welcome the comments of Landsea (2015, hereafter L15) and we1 applaud his efforts toward reanalyzing past tropical cyclone data in the Atlantic (Landsea et al. 2008, 2012, 2014; Hagen et al. 2012). However, L15 does not substantially change the conclusions stated in Kunkel et al. (2013, hereafter K13). L15 voices two main concerns:
1. The U.S. landfalling hurricane time series considered by K13 is dated.
2. The U.S. landfall record exhibits multidecadal variability that places the changes since 1970 into a larger perspective than K13 provided. Related to this concern, L15 introduces assertions about the relationship between U.S. landfall variability and basinwide North Atlantic variability.
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2015-07Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary SciencesJournal
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
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American Meteorological Society
Citation
Kossin, James P. et al. “Reply to ‘Comments on “Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge.”’” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 96.7 (2015): 1177–1179. © 2017 American Meteorological Society
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0003-0007
1520-0477