"The intensification is strongest for typhoons that tend to make landfall because of the stronger warming of the coastal waters near east and south-east Asia," said Wei Mei, a researcher in the department of marine sciences at the University of South Carolina and co-author of the paper. Here, we apply cluster analysis to bias-corrected data and show that, over the past 37 years, typhoons that strike East and Southeast Asia have intensified by 12–15%, with the proportion of storms of categories 4 and 5 having doubled or even tripled.
A study concludes that typhoons in Asia are becoming stronger.