An aridity trend in china and its abrupt feature in association with the global warming |
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Authors: | Fu Congbin |
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Institution: | Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080 |
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Abstract: | A distinct aridity trend in China in last 100 years is presented by applying a linear fitting to both the climate records
and the hydrological records, which is supported by evidence of environmental changes and seems to be associated with a global
warming trend during this period.
The Mann Kendall Rank statistic tesi reveals a very interesting feature that the climate of China entered into a dry regime
abruptly in about 1920's, which synchronized with the rapid warming of the global temperature at almost the same time.
According to an analysis of the meridional profile of observed global zonal mean precipitation anomalies during the peak period
of global warming (1930-1940), the drought occurred in whole middle latitude zone (25°N-55°N) of the Northern Hemisphere,
where the most part of China is located in. Although this pattern is in good agreement with the latitude distribution of the
difference of zonal mean rates of precipitation between 4 x CO2 and 1 x CO2 simulated by climate model (Manabe and Wetherald, 1983), more studies are required to understand the linkage between the
aridity trend in China and the greenhouse effect.
The EOF analysis of the Northern Hemisphere sea level pressure for the season of June to August shows an abrupt change of
the time coefficient of its first eigenvector from positive to negative in mid-1920's, indicating an enhancement of the subtropical
high over Southeast Asia and the western Pacific after that time. This is an atmospheric circulation pattern that is favorable
to the development of dry climate in China. |
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