Reccurence of strong floods on Western Sakhalin and intensity of cyclogenesis in Middle-Late Holocene

The geological record of extreme floods associated with the passage of strongest typhoons and deep extratropical cyclones over the past 6370 years has been restored in Western Sakhalin (the Yablochnaya River basin). A section of peat bog with numerous layers of loam formed during extreme floods was used for the reconstructions. A recent analogue of such events is Typhoon Phyllis (1981), total rainfall reached 300 mm. Ash content was tested for identification of mineral component that was input to the peat during floods. According to the “age-depth” model, we has determined the ages of 38 extreme floods and periods of weaker floods when organomineral sediments accumulated. During periods of active cyclogenesis, the frequency of extreme floods was once every 10—30 years. The paleoclimatic background of events has been analyzed. Long periods with extreme floods were identified 6470—5490, 4300—3670 years ago, and the last 3110 years ago severe floods were rare events. We compare the records of strong floods that occurred on the western and eastern coast of South Sakhalin and in other regions of East Asia. It has been established that periods with frequent strong paleotyphoons and deep extratropical cyclones do not always coincide in time, which could be due to different trajectories of cyclones under different climatic situations. As in the modern period, the increase in the intensity of cyclogenesis and the frequency of typhoons in the Middle-Late Holocene was closely related to warm pool in the western tropical zone of the Pacific Ocean, anomalies of El Niño and atmospheric centers of action.

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