Recent progress in studies of climate change in China

Ren, Guoyu; Ding, Yihui; Zhao, Zongci; Zheng, Jingyun; Wu, Tongwen; Tang, Guoli; Xu, Ying

doi:10.1007/s00376-012-1200-2

Cited by 164 publications

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“…These findings are consistent with results reported in previous studies (e.g. Ren et al 2012). Mean temperature responses to ALL, GHG, ANT, and NAT were characterized by warming trends.…”

Section: Observations and Model Data Processingsupporting

confidence: 93%

Detection and attribution analysis of annual mean temperature changes in China

Xu¹,

Gao²,

Shi³

et al. 2015

Clim. Res.

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Using an optimal fingerprinting method and the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) multi-model simulations, we attempted to quantify the human contribution to the observed annual mean temperature change that occurred over China between 1961 and2005. Results indicate that the combined effects of greenhouse gases and sulfate aerosol forcing are clearly detectable in the observed annual mean temperature change. Effects of anthropogenic and natural forcings are separately detectable, and the climate response to greenhouse gas forcing can be identified clearly and robustly. Our results also show that only when anthropogenic forcing is involved can the observed changes in China's mean temperature from 1961 to 2005 be explained.

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“…These findings are consistent with results reported in previous studies (e.g. Ren et al 2012). Mean temperature responses to ALL, GHG, ANT, and NAT were characterized by warming trends.…”

Section: Observations and Model Data Processingsupporting

confidence: 93%

Detection and attribution analysis of annual mean temperature changes in China

Xu¹,

Gao²,

Shi³

et al. 2015

Clim. Res.

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“…Such studies have emphasized three important periods: the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), the Little Ice Age (LIA) and the Current Warm Period (CWP). In the last 10 years, there has been great progress in research on historical climate changes in China [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. Time series of historical climate changes in China have been reconstructed, with the length of some series being 1000 years or more.…”

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Characteristics of decadal-centennial-scale changes in East Asian summer monsoon circulation and precipitation during the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age and in the present day

Zhou

Zhao²,

Liu

et al. 2011

Chin. Sci. Bull.

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Using meteorological observations, proxies of precipitation and temperature, and climate simulation outputs, we synthetically analyzed the regularities of decadal-centennial-scale changes in the summer thermal contrast between land and ocean and summer precipitation over the East Asian monsoon region during the past millennium; compared the basic characteristics of the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) circulation and precipitation in the present day, the Little Ice Age (LIA) and the Medieval Warm Period (MWP); and explored their links with solar irradiance and global climate change. The results indicate that over the last 150 years, the EASM circulation and precipitation, indicated by the temperature contrast between the East Asian mainland and adjacent oceans, had a significant decadal perturbation and have been weaker during the period of rapid global warming over the past 50 years. On the centennial time scale, the EASM in the MWP was strongest over

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“…Five categories of methods can be used to estimate climate elasticity (Sankarasubramanian et al, 2001). The analytical derivation method has been widely used in many studies because it is clear in theory and does not need a large amount of historical observed data.…”

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“…There are several approaches to investigate the impacts of annual runoff on climate change, including hydrologic models (Yang et al, 1998;Arnold et al, 1998;Yang et al, 2000;Arnold and Fohrer, 2005), the climate elasticity method (Schaake, 1990;Sankarasubramanian et al, 2001), and the statistics method (Vogel et al, 1999). The climate elasticity method, which has the advantage of requiring only the mean and trend of climate and basin variables and not requiring extensive historical measurements, was widely used in quantifying the effects of climatic factors on runoff, such as in the Yellow River basin (Zheng et al, 2009;Yang and Yang, 2011), the Luan River basin (Xu et al, 2013), the Chao-Bai River basin (Ma et al, 2010), and the Hai River basin (Ma et al, 2008;Yang and Yang, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

Dominant climatic factors driving annual runoff changes at the catchment scale across China

Huang

Yang

2016

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. With global climate changes intensifying, the hydrological response to climate changes has attracted more attention. It is beneficial not only for hydrology and ecology but also for water resource planning and management to understand the impact of climate change on runoff. In addition, there are large spatial variations in climate type and geographic characteristics across China. To gain a better understanding of the spatial variation of the response of runoff to changes in climatic factors and to detect the dominant climatic factors driving changes in annual runoff, we chose the climate elasticity method proposed by Yang and Yang (2011). It is shown that, in most catchments of China, increasing air temperature and relative humidity have negative impacts on runoff, while declining net radiation and wind speed have positive impacts on runoff, which slow the overall decline in runoff. The dominant climatic factors driving annual runoff are precipitation in most parts of China, net radiation mainly in some catchments of southern China, air temperature and wind speed mainly in some catchments in northern China.

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Recent progress in studies of climate change in China

Cited by 164 publications

References 37 publications

Detection and attribution analysis of annual mean temperature changes in China

Detection and attribution analysis of annual mean temperature changes in China

Characteristics of decadal-centennial-scale changes in East Asian summer monsoon circulation and precipitation during the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age and in the present day

Dominant climatic factors driving annual runoff changes at the catchment scale across China

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