Sea level rise, surface warming, and the weakened buffering ability of South China Sea to strong typhoons in recent decades

Abstract Each year, a number of typhoons in the western North Pacific pass through the Luzon Strait into South China Sea (SCS). Although the storms remain above a warm open sea, the majority of them weaken due to atmospheric and oceanic environments unfavorable for typhoon intensification in SCS, wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jingru Sun, Leo Oey, F.-H. Xu, Y.-C. Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07572-3