Relationships between Ambient Ozone Concentration Changes in Southwestern Taiwan and Invasion Tracks of Tropical Typhoons

Table 1

Frequency of typhoon formation in the western Pacific Ocean and typhoon invasions in Taiwan from 1994 to 2014.

Year	Number of typhoons formed in western Pacific Ocean	Number and frequency of typhoons invading Taiwan	Global average temperature	Average temperature for Taiwan	East Asia ocean temperature
1994	27	6 (22%)	+0.28	23.47 (+0.47)	+0.27
1995	25	4 (16%)	+0.34	23.52 (+0.52)	+0.32
1996	30	3 (10%)	+0.35	23.49 (+0.49)	+0.23
1997	31	2 (6%)	+0.47	23.55 (+0.55)	+0.43
1998	17	5 (29%)	+0.56	23.60 (+0.60)	+0.48
1999	23	2 (9%)	+0.39	23.70 (+0.70)	+0.25
2000	23	5 (22%)	+0.36	23.80 (+0.80)	+0.30
2001	26	8 (31%)	+0.49	23.80 (+0.80)	+0.41
2002	26	2 (8%)	+0.56	24.20 (+1.20)	+0.44
2003	21	3 (14%)	+0.56	23.90 (+0.90)	+0.51
2004	29	5 (17%)	+0.53	23.60 (+0.60)	+0.52
2005	23	3 (13%)	+0.61	23.60 (+0.60)	+0.53
2006	23	4 (17%)	+0.54	24.20 (+1.20)	+0.47
2007	24	5 (21%)	+0.55	24.10 (+1.10)	+0.41
2008	22	4 (18%)	+0.49	23.80 (+0.80)	+0.39
2009	22	3 (14%)	+0.60	23.99 (+0.99)	+0.48
2010	14	3 (21%)	+0.66	23.87 (+0.87)	+0.50
2011	21	1 (5%)	+0.53	23.30 (+0.30)	+0.45
2012	25	4 (16%)	+0.57	23.71 (+0.71)	+0.51
2013	31	5 (16%)	+0.62	23.91 (+0.91)	+0.53
2014	23	2 (9%)	+0.69	23.95 (+0.95)	+0.57
Average	24.42	3.8 (16%)	13.9 C	23.0 C	16.1 C

p.s.: the average temperature from 1901 to 2000 (ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/anomalies).