Trends in Total Precipitation and Frequency of Daily Precipitation Extremes over China

Abstract Based on a newly developed daily precipitation dataset of 740 stations in China and more robust trend detection techniques, trends in annual and seasonal total precipitation and in extreme daily precipitation, defined as those larger than its 95th percentile for the year, summer, and winter half years, have been assessed for the period 1951–2000. Possible links between changes in total precipitation and frequency of extremes have also been explored. The results indicate that there is little trend in total precipitation for China as a whole, but there are distinctive regional and seasonal patterns of trends. Annual total precipitation has significantly decreased over southern northeast China, north China, and over the Sichuan Basin but significantly increased in western China, the Yangtze River valley, and the southeastern coast. In western China, precipitation increase has been observed for both cold and warm seasons. However, trends differ from one season to another in eastern China. Spring prec...

• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Journal of Climate

• Publication date

  2005-04-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1175/JCLI-3318.1
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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