Asian air pollution is influencing weather patterns over Pacific Ocean and the United States. A scientific team comprising researchers from four different institutions reached the conclusion after assessing and comparing the data released by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change from 1850 through 2000.

Investigators said aerosols from Asia impact the Pacific storm track, an influential driver of atmospheric circulation that impacts weather of most of the planet. The massive data was fed in an advanced climate computer model viewing Earth's atmosphere circulation.

Researchers then compared the two climate conditions. Firstly, they assessed weather pattern conditions prevailing in 1850 and secondly, climate conditions in 2000 or now. After going through both the scenarios, researchers confirmed that the human-made aerosols have heavily impacted the cloud formations and extra tropical cyclones.

Both the phenomenonare associated with the Pacific storm track transporting heat and moisture along its track. Study researchers said the intensification in the Pacific storm track has taken place owing to the discharge of toxins in Asia.

"There appears to be little doubt that these particles from Asia affect storms sweeping across the Pacific and subsequently the weather patterns in North America and the rest of the world", affirmed Renyi Zhang from Texas A&M's Department of Atmospheric Sciences, one of the study authors.

Rapidly growing Asian economies have been impacting the formation of storms as well as the circulation of air along the track. In previous researches, it has been unveiled that atmospheric aerosols affect the global climate by absorbing the sun's radiation and changing the formation of clouds. The study has been presented in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.