China and Japan Join Forces on Typhoon Research as Climate Warms

Scientific institutions in China and Japan plan to collaborate on typhoon observations and research, as warming temperatures threaten to make the powerful storms more destructive.

The initiative will make it possible for relay-style flight missions to observe a typhoon that spans across Japan and China’s zones as part of collecting and sharing data on the storms, according to Jie Tang, director of the Asia-Pacific Typhoon Collaborative Research Center based in Shanghai.