The South China Sea will suffer a series of major tropical storms

The phenomenon of surface water in the Western Pacific region has warmed China, Japan and South Korea to the threat of massive tropical storms.

That's the results of research published in the British Environmental Research Letters on January 16.

Scientists from Seoul National University (South Korea) studied basic data on tropical storms occurring in the Pacific Northwest region from 1977 to 2010.

The results show that during this time, sea surface temperatures in the Western Pacific region are much higher than in the central and Eastern Pacific regions.

This temperature difference appears at the same time as the changes of a strong wind system in the Pacific, also known as the Walker circulatory cycle .

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The scene flooded in Taiwan after the storm overflowed by Kong-Rey.(Photo: AFP / VNA)

This makes tropical storms formed in the Pacific Ocean tend to go along the coast of East Asian countries, from the South China Sea up before landing on China, Japan and Korea with strength. Strongest wind.

This change also means the formation of more storms in the North Sea.

Typhoons hitting southern China, Vietnam or Taiwan (China) formed very close to the shore and often reached the strongest speed when landing on land.

However, scientists also claim that further research is needed to determine the cause of the above temperature difference due to global warming or the process of self-change. Of course, it has been going on for decades.

Professor Chang-Hoi Ho, the leader of the research team, affirmed that if large-scale environmental changes took place over the years or the phenomenon of global warming proved to be the cause of the phenomenon, then among Next year, East Asia will be affected by tropical storms with more frequency than ever.