Climate forcing and long-term temperature trend in China
- PRC Environmental Management Inc., San Francisco, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (United States)
A long-term temperature dataset is analyzed. Temperature trend shown in sixty stations in China indicates the seasonal and geographical variations. Diurnal temperature range was computed and statistically analyzed. Western rural regions in China show the green house warming effects while diurnal temperature ranges in industrial/commercial cities are cooler than the expected. Modeled sulfate aerosol loading are used to compute the anthropogenic climate forcing across the Asian countries. Net climate forcing, a result of green house and sulfate forcing, shows the positive correlation to the diurnal temperature ranges in sixty cities. Backward and forward forecasting of the net forcing show the past the future scenarios. Geographical analysis shows the distinct patterns for industrial/commercial and rural regions.
- OSTI ID:
- 466171
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9606185-; TRN: 96:005931-0122
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 5. international conference on atmospheric sciences and applications to air quality, Seattle, WA (United States), 18-20 Jun 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of The 5th international atmospheric sciences and applications to air quality conference; PB: 322 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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