Three different tropical cyclones spinning over the western Pacific Ocean on August 7, 2006. The cyclone on the lower right has intensified into a typhoon. Credit: NASA
China, Taiwan, Japan and the Koreas will experience more violent typhoons under climate change, said researchers presenting evidence for a recent rise in storm intensity caused by ocean warming. Scientists have struggled to identify changes in the intensity and frequency of typhoons over the NW Pacific ocean—never mind trying to pinpoint a role for global warming. Contradictory trends emerge from records such as the Joint Typhoon Warming Center and Japan Meteorological Agency—the two most widely-used data sets in typhoon research, according to the US-based Wei Mei and Shang-Ping Xie...
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