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The number of North Atlantic/Caribbean named tropical cyclones in and the estimates based on the area with sea surface temperature above 25.6°C The curve presented above is an update of the analysis presented in 2020 and posted here on RealClimate. C (Benestad, 2009). IPCC assessment report 6 – technical summary TS.2.3
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