GB/T 32934-2025Chinese naming of global tropical cyclones (English PDF)

Foreword

This document is in accordance with the provisions of GB/T 1.1-2020 "Guidelines for standardization work Part 1: Structure and drafting rules for standardization documents" Drafting.

This document replaces GB/T 32934-2016 "Chinese names of tropical cyclones worldwide". Compared with GB/T 32934-2016, except for the structural adjustment In addition to the integration and editorial changes, the main technical changes are as follows.

a) The Global Tropical Cyclone Centre Name Translation Principles (see Chapter 2 of the 2016 edition) were deleted;

b) Added Chinese names for tropical cyclones in the Northwest Pacific and the South China Sea (see Chapter 4), and deleted the Chinese names for tropical cyclones in the Northwest Pacific and the South China Sea.

Chinese name (see Chapter 3 of the 2016 edition);

c) The Chinese and foreign names of tropical cyclones in other sea areas around the world have been changed (see 5.2 to 5.8, Chapters 4 to 10 of the 2016 edition);

d) Added the Chinese names of tropical cyclones in the waters near Port Moresby and Jakarta (see 5.9~5.10);

e) Added the global tropical cyclone monitoring sea area division (see Appendix A);

f) The Chinese names of tropical cyclones in the Northwest Pacific that have been permanently removed from the list have been deleted (see Appendix A of the 2016 edition);

g) Added rules for the use of tropical cyclones in other ocean areas around the world (see Appendix B).

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This document was proposed by the China Meteorological Administration.

This document is under the jurisdiction of the National Technical Committee for Standardization of Meteorological Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (SAC/TC345).

This document was drafted by: National Meteorological Center.

The main drafters of this document are: Xiang Chunyi, Dong Lin, Liu Da, Wang Wei, and Qian Qifeng.

The previous versions of this document and the documents it replaces are as follows.

— First published in 2016 as GB/T 32934-2016;

— This is the first revision.

Chinese names for tropical cyclones around the world

1 Scope

This document establishes the Chinese naming rules for tropical cyclones around the world.

This document applies to global tropical cyclone forecasts, services and scientific research.

2 Normative references

GB/T 19202-2017

3 Terms and definitions

The following terms and definitions apply to this document.

5 Chinese names for tropical cyclones in other sea areas around the world