: Interactions between warm, moist air and cooler, dry air masses over warm ocean waters [14, 19].
: In the "Typhoon Alley" of the Northwest Pacific [1]. While technically the same phenomenon as hurricanes (Atlantic/East Pacific) or cyclones (Indian Ocean/South Pacific), the name "typhoon" is specific to this region [17, 19, 34].
As of , significant attention has focused on Super Typhoon Sinlaku , which recently impacted Pacific territories [6, 10]: