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The tropical Indian Ocean is characterized by surface-warming trends that are more statistically significant, compared with model-simulated internal variability, than those in many other tropical basins including in the Northeast Pacific and North Atlantic (e.g., Knutson et al., 2006, see Figs. 5, 7, 9). This raises the possibility that tropical cyclone (TC) trends resulting from global warming could emerge in the Indian Ocean prior to other basins. Here, some studies of climate-warming impacts on tropical cyclone behavior relevant to this issue are reviewed.
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Knutson, T.R. (2010). Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change: An Indian Ocean Perspective. In: Charabi, Y. (eds) Indian Ocean Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3109-9_7
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