Climate risk · Rationale

Tropical cyclone

Storm characterised by a strong, cyclonic-scale disturbance originating over tropical oceans; classed as a tropical storm at one-minute mean surface winds of 18 to 32 m/s, and as a hurricane, typhoon, or cyclone above 32 m/s depending on geographic location.

Definition source: IPCC AR6 WGI Annex VII Glossary: Tropical cyclone

Synonyms

cyclone, hurricane, typhoon

Broader

Storm

Narrower

none

Counts as adaptation

Always (adaptation-specific).

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

CRK_114 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/CRK_114
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/CRK_114)