This is the second part of the authors’ analysis on the output of 24 coupled climate models from the Twentieth-Century Climate in Coupled Models (20C3M) experiment and 1% per year CO 2 increase experiment (to doubling) (1pctto2x) of phase 3 of the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project (CMIP3). The study focuses on the potential changes of July–August temperature extremes over China. The pattern correlation coefficients of the simulated temperature with the observations are 0.6–0.9, which are higher than th...
【英文摘要】
This is the second part of the authors’ analysis on the output of 24 coupled climate models from the Twentieth-Century Climate in Coupled Models (20C3M) experiment and 1% per year CO 2 increase experiment (to doubling) (1pctto2x) of phase 3 of the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project (CMIP3). The study focuses on the potential changes of July–August temperature extremes over China. The pattern correlation coefficients of the simulated temperature with the observations are 0.6–0.9, which are higher than th...
【基金】
supported by R&D Special Fund for Public Welfare Industry (meteorology) (GYHY200806010);
China–UK–Swiss Adapting to Climate Change in China Project (ACCC)–Climate Science;
the National Key Technologies R&D Program under Grant No. 2007BAC29B03
【更新日期】
2011-04-01
【分类号】
P468.021
【正文快照】
1. Introduction Extreme temperature change has more noticeable effect on human life and society than the mean con- dition. Observational evidence over continental China indicates that extreme indicators, based on both ab- solute value and percentile, pres