Observed Climate Change in East China during 1961-2007.pdfVIP

ADVANCESINCLIMATECHANGERESEARCH4(2)：84—91，2013 www．climatechange．cn DOI：10．3724／SP．J．1248．2013．084 Observed Clim ateChangein EastChina during 1961--—·—2007 HOU Yi—Ling，CHEN Bao—De。，YANG Xu—Chao。，LIANG Ping ShanghaiClimateCenter,Shanghai200030 China 。ShanghaiTyphoonInstituteofChinaMeteorologicalAdministration，Shanghai200030，China 。ZhejiangInstituteofMeteorologicalSciences，Hangzhou310008，China Abstract Bv using in situdaily observationsin EastChina during 1961—2007andNCEP reanalysisdata，themethods ofstati~；ticalanalyses，urban minusruraland observation minusreanalysis，itisrevealed thattheobserved climate changeand surfacewarmingin EastChinaweremainly inducedby urbanization．Theresultsshow thatEastChina hasexperienced two warmerperiodsof1930sand 1980sin thepastcentury；from 1951to2007，theregionalmean temperatureincreasedatarateofO．14。C perdecade；heatwaveshappenedinurban centermolefrequently，andlocal climateshowedawarminganddrytrend；therewasnosignificantlineartrendinregionalmeanprecipitationinthepast 50years．Urbanizationwasacrucialelementfortheregionalwarming；about44％ofthewarmingwasduetoheatisland effectinthemegacity． Keywords：EastChina；urbanization；climatechange Citation：Hou，Y．．L．，B．一D．Chen，X．。C．Yang，eta1．，2013：ObservedclimatechangeinEastChinadurin Adv．Clim．ChangeRe8．，4(2)，doi：10．3724／SP．J．1248．2013．084． 1 Introduction northwest north and northeastregions，and urban— izationwasan importantsourceofuncertainty inthe Globalwarming isthemain feature ofclimate temperatureassessment[GongandWang，2002]． changes and the characteristics and the possible Both China’s largest freshwater bodies—— the causesareamongthecore issuesin currentclimate DongtingLake，theYangtzeRiver，