摘要
The natural disaster information in the historical documents in mainland East China are investigated and collected.A set of criteria is set up to discern the tropical cyclone(hereafter TC) influences from these records.The criteria construction is based on the knowledge of TC and TC disasters in instrumental era.Five TC features are considered in the criteria,they are occurring time,spatial scale,lasting time,disaster characteristics and associated weather phenomena.Altogether 1445 affecting TC events are found from historical documents during 1450-1949 in mainland East China.The contents of the reconstructed data include three parts—the yearly number,the occurring time and influential scope of every event.Some characteristics of the reconstructed data,temporal resolution,seasonal distribution and temporal evolution,are also discussed.
