Reanalysis of Surface Air Temperature Change of the Last 100 Years over China
Reanalysis of Surface Air Temperature Change of the Last 100 Years over China
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2005
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Tang Guo
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Tang Guo
The present paper gives a new country-averaged surface air temperature anomaly series for China for 1905—2001 period. We used monthly mean temperature dada obtained by averaging monthly mean maximum and minimum temperatures to avoid the in-homogeneity problems with data induced by differential observation times and statistic methods between early and late 20th century. The widely accepted procedures for creating area-averaged climatic time series and for calculating linear trend have been used. The new air temperature time series has been analyzed and its rationality also has been explained. The result shows that annual mean surface air temperature of the country for the past 97 years experienced a warming of 0.79 ℃, with a warming rate of 0.08 ℃/10 a which is slightly larger than global or northern hemispheric average as given by IPCC TAR. Two warm periods, which occurred respectively in the 1930s—1940s and the 1980s—1990s, are evident, with 1946 and 1998 as the warmest ones within the record period. It is interesting to note that the temperature anomalies of the 1990s are no higher than those of the 1940s, implying the larger contribution from warming of the cold periods to the long-term positive trend. Seasonal features of temperature changes for the last 97 years are characterized by the more rapid warming of wintertime and springtime, with summer showing an insignificant cooling trend during the 97-year period. However, the reanalysis did not take account for urbanization effect on temperature record. It is essential to pay more attention to the problem in the further study if we intend to better detect the regional change in climate.