supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant Nos. 2007BAC29B02, 2007BAC03A01 and GYHY201206012)
An overview of basic research on climate change in recent years in China is presented. In the past 100 years in China, average annual mean surface air temperature (SAT) has increased at a rate ranging from 0.03℃ (...
supported by the National Key Science and Technology Program of Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2007BAC03A01)
Using the snow cover fi'action (SNC) output from eight WCRP CMIP3 climate models under SRES A2, A1B, and B1 scenarios, the future trend of SNC over East Asia is analyzed. Results show that SNC is likely to decrease...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2009CB421407,2006CB403707,and2007BAC03A01);the R & D Special Fund for Public Welfare Industry(meteorol-ogy)(GYHY200806010);Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant NOKZCX2-YW-Q1-02)
This paper describes the construction of a 0.5°× 0.5° daily temperature dataset for the period of 1961- 2005 over China's Mainland for the purpose of climate model validation. The dataset is based on the interpolat...
supported by the National Basic Research Program(2009CB421407,2006CB403707,and 2007BAC03A01);the R & D Special Fund for Public Welfare Industry(meteorol-ogy)(GYHY200806010);Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant NOKZCX2-YW-Q1-02)
The regional climate change index (RCCI) is employed to investigate hot-spots under 21st century global warming over East Asia. The RCCI is calculated on a 1-degree resolution grid from the ensemble of CMIP3 simulat...