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Extreme climate events over northern China during the last 50 years

Auteurs :
HAN, H.
GONG, D.

Description :
Climate extremes for agricultural-pasture transitional zone, northern China are analyzed on the basis of daily mean temperature and precipitation observations for 31 stations in the period 1956-2001. Analysis season for precipitation is May-September, the rainy season. Heavy rain evenys show no significant show no significant secular trend. There is a weak and non-significant upward trend in frequency of extremely high temperatures from the 1950s to the mid-1990s. But the number of hot events increases as much as twice since 1997. The frequency of low temperature events have been decreasing steadily since the 1950s.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Journal of geographical sciences. Acta geographica sinica, issn : 1009-637X, 2003, vol. 13, n°. 4, p. 469-479, nombre de pages : 11, Collation : Illustration, Références bibliographiques : 23 ref.

Date :
2003

Editeur :
Pays édition : Chine

Langue :
Anglais
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