This National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) totaling $126,436 will fund research at Princeton University from September 2022 to August 2024 to assess climate and stochastic forcing of North Atlantic tropical cyclone activity over the past millennium. The researchers will generate tropical cyclone datasets from multiple model simulations of the last 1,000 years and investigate relationships between past modeled tropical cyclone responses and climatic drivers. They will also integrate existing paleohurricane records with new simulations to quantify the climate signal captured and develop methodology for combining reconstructions to maximize regional-to-basin-wide climate signals. This research aims to expand the dataset of landfalling tropical cyclones to better quantify local risks and assess the role of climate variability in driving activity. A 1,000-year tropical cyclone storm dataset and related research products will be made available to the broader scientific community and stakeholders.
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