Data for Interannual Variability of Tropical Cyclone Landfalls in the Eastern North Pacific

<p>The dataset in this repository is the post-processed data needed to make the final Figures of the paper: "Interannual Variability of Tropical Cyclone Landfalls in the Eastern North Pacific: Environmental Drivers and Implications."<br />
The original data comes from IBTrACS (International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship project) and ERA5 (fifth-generation ECMWF reanalysis). </p>

<p>The dataset presented here has undergone quality control measures, including removing storms originating from the Atlantic Ocean, selection based on intensity, and focusing on the Eastern North Pacific. It identifies the strongest landfalls for multiple landfalling storms. The dataset is trimmed spatially to include longitudes between 140°W and 70°W, and latitudes from -5°S to 40°N. The dataset covers specific periods, focusing only on high and low landfall years and the climatological mean. Additionally, the dataset includes the results of running the Storm Wind Model (Figure 2) and a 1000-step Bootstrapping for error estimations Figure 3a.</p>

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The Research Questions answered with this dataset are the following:</p>

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<li>What is the climatological seasonal cycle of TC landfalls in the ENP? To what extent do genesis anomalies versus steering wind anomalies control this cycle?</li>
<li>Where is the preferred location of landfall in the basin? Does this location depend on the yearly landfall probability?</li>
<li>Do the monsoonal winds, as the main source of westerlies in the basin, significantly contribute to the interannual variability of landfall in the ENP?</li>
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<p>Resulting in the following key points:</p>

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<li>The Eastern North Pacific seasonal cycle has a bimodal distribution of tropical cyclone landfalls due to its orography.</li>
<li>During high landfall years, tropical cyclones make landfall in vulnerable Southern Mexico due to a stronger reversal of the easterlies.</li>
<li>Steering wind anomalies are the main driver for landfall interannual variability in the East Pacific.</li>
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