Abstract
AbstractEvent‐based paleohurricane reconstructions of the last millennium indicate dramatic changes in the frequency of landfalling hurricanes on centennial timescales. It is difficult to assess whether the variability captured in these paleorecords is related to changing climate or randomness. We assess whether centennial‐scale active and quiet intervals of intense hurricane activity occur in a set of synthetic storms run with boundary conditions from an earth system model simulation of the last millennium. We generate 1,000 pseudo sedimentary records for a site on South Andros Island using a Poisson random draw from this synthetic storm data set. We find that any single pseudo sedimentary record contains active and quiet intervals of hurricane activity. The 1,000‐record ensemble average, which reflects the common signal of climate variability, does not. This suggests that the record of paleohurricane activity from The Bahamas reflects variability in hurricane frequency dominated by randomness and not variability in the climatic conditions.
Highlights
With rising sea levels (Kopp et al, 2016; Woodruff et al, 2013) and projected increases in the frequency of intense tropical cyclones (TCs)
We assess whether centennial-scale active and quiet intervals of intense hurricane activity occur in a set of synthetic storms run with boundary conditions from an earth system model simulation of the last millennium
We find that any single pseudo sedimentary record contains active and quiet intervals of hurricane activity
Summary
With rising sea levels (Kopp et al, 2016; Woodruff et al, 2013) and projected increases in the frequency of intense tropical cyclones (TCs) J. Wallace et al, 2019; Winkler et al, 2020) and hydrodynamic modeling of large suites of synthetic TCs passing the sites (Lin et al, 2014) indicate that the vast majority of storms that leave deposits are above some intensity threshold (>Category 2 or 3) and passing proximal (within
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