Linear trends in mean and extreme temperature in Xiongan New Area, China

Autor: Cheng QIAN, Li-Juan CAO
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, Vol 11, Iss 3, Pp 246-254 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1674-2834
2376-6123
16742834
DOI: 10.1080/16742834.2018.1422677
Popis: On 1 April 2017 China established Xiongan New Area in Hebei Province, which was described as ‘a strategy crucial for a millennium to come’. A point of interest for the public is to be aware of the historical climate change in this new area; however, results from previous global-scale or larger-regional-scale averages provide relatively limited information because of the distinct regional differences in climate change. This study analyzes the changes in mean and extreme temperature in this area, based on homogenized daily temperature data for the period 1960–2016. The results show a significant warming in the indices of annual, summer, and winter mean temperature (T mean), maximum temperature (T max), and minimum temperature (T min). The linear rate of annual T mean is 0.34 °C/decade. Temperatures on the hottest day, the warmest night, the coldest day, and the coldest night, every year, all show increasing trends, with the trends in the two nighttime-related indices being significant. An increasing occurrence of warm days, warm nights, hot days, and tropical nights, but a decreasing occurrence of cold days, cold nights, icing days, and frost days, are found, all of which are significant, except for the occurrences of hot days and icing days. A significant extension of the length of the thermal growing season is also found. The magnitudes of change in most of the temperature indices in Xiongan New Area are larger than those of the adjacent Jing-Jin-Ji and North China regional mean. These results could provide valuable information for policymakers, city planners, engineers, and migrants to this new area.
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