Pacific Ocean); typhoons occur in the Western North Pacific Ocean. 

 Because of the vast expanse of warm water in the Western Pacific, ty- 

 phoons occur more often than hurricanes and are frequently larger 

 and more intense. 



Dunn, G. E., and B. I. Miller 



Atlantic Hurricanes, L.S.U. Press, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1960. 

 Tannehill, I. R. 



Hurricanes, Their Nature and History, Princeton University Press, 



Princeton, New Jersey, 1938. 

 Simpson, R. H. 



"Hurricanes," Scientific American, Vol. 190, pp. 32-37, June 1954. 



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