From vulnerability to resilience: Addressing the causes, impacts, and solutions for recurrent flash floods in the Philippines
September 2025
The Philippines is among the most disaster-prone nations. Its islands are frequently hit by floods, typhoons, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and droughts due to their location along major...
Typhoon Odette (Rai): Rapid Intensification, Devastation, and Lessons for Resilient Recovery in the Philippines
Available online 8 November 2025
The study explored how Typhoon Odette developed, what made it so powerful, and how it deeply affected the lives of millions of Filipinos, disrupting homes, livelihoods, infrastructure, agriculture,...
2020 tropical cyclones in the Philippines: A review
September 2021
The official website of the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said more tropical cyclones (TCs) enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) than...
Recent increase in the number of Super Typhoons in the Philippines
Available online 11 September 2025
The negative impacts of tropical cyclones (TCs) on the Philippines’ socioeconomic development continue to rise, despite previous reports indicating a decline in the annual number of TCs within the Philippine...
Summary of Retired Typhoons in the Western North Pacific Ocean
February 2012
Names have been given to tropical cyclones which raging through the western North Pacific Ocean since 1947. However, considering the disastrous impact or some extreme uniqueness quite a few typhoons...
Assessment on Disaster Risk Reduction of Tropical Storm Washi
September 2013
In December, 2011, the world's second most deadly disaster of the year, Tropical Storm Washi (known as Sendong in the Philippines) landed along the east coast of Mindanao, Philippines, causing 1,292...
Assessment of the damages and direct economic loss in Hong Kong due to Super Typhoon Mangkhut in 2018
December 2020
Super Typhoon Mangkhut hit Hong Kong on September 16, 2018, necessitating the issuance of the highest tropical cyclone warning signal, No. 10 Hurricane Signal. Packing ferocious winds and record-breaking...
Review of artificial intelligence application in typhoon forecasting
September 2025
As global climate warming intensifies, the frequency and intensity of typhoon (tropical cyclone) have become increasingly uncertain, posing significant challenges to human society. Traditional typhoon...
An update on the influence of natural climate variability and anthropogenic climate change on tropical cyclones
September 2023
A substantial number of studies have been published since the Ninth International Workshop on Tropical Cyclones (IWTC-9) in 2018, improving our understanding of the effect of climate change on tropical...
Characteristics and Near-Landfall Behavior of Tropical Cyclones Affecting the Philippines (1979–2024)
Available online 5 November 2025
The Philippines is one of the most frequently affected countries by tropical cyclones (TCs), yet key questions remain about how storm behavior evolves as they enter national warning domains. In this...
A Global View of the Landfall Characteristics of Tropical Cyclones
September 2014
This report presents a climatology of the landfall characteristics of tropical cyclones (TCs) by country. Land-falling TCs can produce strong winds, storm surges and severe flooding that may result...
The influence of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on the characteristics of tropical cyclones in Indonesia waters
September 2025
Indonesia, bordered by the Indian and Pacific Oceans, is influenced by tropical cyclone (TC) activity and phenomena such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). This...
Role of multi-purpose cyclone shelters in India: Last mile or neighbourhood evacuation
December 2020
India follows a strategy of having Multi-Purpose Cyclone Shelters along the coastline for tropical cyclone risk mitigation. These shelters are meant to provide refuge to vulnerable populations at the...
How the National Forecasting Centre in Oman Dealt with Tropical Cyclone Gonu
February 2012
Tropical Cyclone Gonu affected the coastal areas of Oman during the period of 5th – 7th June 2007. The low pressure system which first developed on the 1st of June 2007 southwest of India intensified...
Review of big-data and AI application in typhoon-related disaster risk early warning in Typhoon Committee region
December 2023
ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee Members are directly or indirectly affected by typhoons every year. Members have accumulated rich experiences dealing with typhoons' negative impact and developed the technologies...
Flash flood modeling in the data-poor basin: A case study in Matina River Basin
June 2021
Forecasting flooding hazards is a very effective non-engineering measure for flood control. Presently, the commonly used forecasting method in simulating flash flood events is through a watershed hydrological...
Remote sensing and analysis of tropical cyclones: Current and emerging satellite sensors
December 2023
This article describes recent advances in the capability of new satellite sensors for observing Tropical Cyclones (TC) fine structure, wind field, and temporal evolution. The article is based on a World...
Assessing the impact of tropical cyclones on economic sectors in Costa Rica, Central America
September 2024
Tropical cyclones (TC) pose a persistent natural hazard to Costa Rica. Exposure to natural hazards, such as mass movements and floods, is compounded by a growing urban population and inadequate land...
Tropical cyclogenesis: Controlling factors and physical mechanisms
September 2023
In this review, advances in the understanding of the controlling factors and physical mechanisms of tropical cyclogenesis (TCG) are summarized from recent (2018–2022) research on TCG, as presented in...
Assessment of an Extreme Heavy Rainfall over Meghalaya, India on 16th& 17th June 2022: A case study using Meteorological and Remote Sensing observations
March 2025
The investigation of extreme weather phenomena is an important scientific field that incorporates multiple disciplines due to their significant impacts on various sectors and society as a whole. There...
Challenges in forecasting super typhoon Yagi (2024)
September 2025
Yagi (2024) is another super typhoon that made landfall in 2024 in Wenchang, Hainan, following Rammasun (2014), with its destructive power setting a new historical record for typhoon disasters in Hainan....
Assessment of the impacts of Super Typhoon Saola and the record-breaking rainstorm due to the remnant of Severe Typhoon Haikui on Hong Kong in September 2023
June 2025
In early September 2023, Hong Kong was severely impacted by the ferocious strike of Super Typhoon Saola on 1–2 September and the phenomenal rainstorm on 7–8 September triggered by the remnant of TC...
Typhoon science meets artificial intelligence: A roundtable on bridging physics-based and data-driven paradigms
September 2025
This paper summarizes the ‘Artificial Intelligence (AI) + Typhoon’ session and a subordinated roundtable forum at the 21st China National Workshop on Tropical Cyclones (NWTC-XXI, 16–18 April. 2025,...
Assessing the impact of climate change on land-falling tropical cyclones (LFTCs) over the North Indian Ocean (NIO) and their effects on coastal agriculture in Maharashtra: A case study
June 2025
The intensity of tropical cyclonic storms formed over the North Indian Ocean (NIO) has increased over the last two decades. The increasing severity of cyclonic storms has serious socioeconomic and agricultural...
Forecasting the frequency and magnitude of hurricanes in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, in the period from 2025 to 2034 using convolutional neural networks (CNNs), Long Short-Term Memory networks (LSTMs) and statistical models
September 2025
Climate change has significantly increased the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, a trend recognized under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 13: Climate Action. This study...