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PICES XV W5-3249 Oral The response of marine environment in the offshore area of China and its adjacent ocean to recent global climate change Rong-Shuo Cai1, Ji-Long Chen2 and Rong-Hui Huang2 1 Key Laboratory of Global Change and Marine-Atmospheric Chemistry, State Oceanic Administration (SOA), Xiamen 361005; The Third Institute of Oceanography, SOA, Xiamen, 361005, PR China. E-mail: rscai@163.com 2 Center for Monsoon System Research, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100080, PR China Due to the severity of impact of global climate warming on marine environment and ecosystem and sustainable development of economy and society, the impacts of global climate change for recent 50 years on winter and summer wind field near sea surface, sea surface zonal and meridional wind stresses and sea surface temperature (SST) in the offshore area of China, including the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and its adjacent ocean, mainly including the tropical and subtropical western Pacific, are analyzed by using the wind data from ERA-40 reanalysis data, the high-resolution reanalysis data of ocean climate such as HadISST and SODA (Simple Ocean Data Assimilation) and so on. The analyzed results show that due to the impact of global climate warming, the winter and summer monsoon flows became weak over the offshore area of China and its adjacent Ocean after 1976, which caused the weakening of winter and summer sea surface wind stresses, especially the meridional sea surface wind stresses, and obvious increase of SST in the area. Moreover, the results also show that the weakening of winter and summer sea surface wind stresses and the increase of SST are particularly significant in the East China Sea. The weakening of winter and summer sea surface wind stresses and the warming of SST in the offshore area of China these can provide a favorable marine environment for the frequent occurrence of red tide in