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The tropical cyclone data were taken from the International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS; https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ibtracs).
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All codes used to analyse and plot the data are available from the corresponding author on request.
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This research was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2017R1A2B2005019) and the Korea Meteorological Administration Research and Development Program under grant KMI2018-07610.
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Moon, IJ., Kim, SH. & Chan, J.C.L. Climate change and tropical cyclone trend. Nature 570, E3–E5 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1222-3
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