Climate Change Impacts on Central China and Adaptation Measures

In Central China, the obvious climate change has happened along with global warming. Based on the observational analysis, the climate change has significant effects, both positive and negative, in every field within the study area, and with the harmful effects far more prevalent. Under the A1B scena...

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Published inAdvances in climate change research Vol. 4; no. 4; pp. 215 - 222
Main Author REN Yong-Jian CUI Jiang-Xue WAN Su-Qin LIU Min CHEN Zheng-Hong LIAO Yu-Fang WANG Ji-Jun
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 25.12.2013
College of Atmospheric Science, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China%Meteorological Bureau of Hubei Province, Wuhan 430074, China%Wuhan Regional Climate Center, Wuhan 430074, China%Hubei Meteorological Service Center, Wuhan 430074, China%Climate Center of Hunan Province, Changsha 410118, China%Climate Center of Henan Province, Zhengzhou 450003, China
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adaptation measures
Central China
climate change
impact assessment
uncertainty
中国
农业生态系统
区域气候变化
森林生态系统
气候变化影响
湿地生态系统
评估方法
降水强度
Central China
uncertainty
adaptation measures
climate change
impact assessment
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Summary:In Central China, the obvious climate change has happened along with global warming. Based on the observational analysis, the climate change has significant effects, both positive and negative, in every field within the study area, and with the harmful effects far more prevalent. Under the A1B scenario, it is reported that temperature, precipitation, days of heat waves, and extreme precipitation intensity will increase at respective rates of 0.38℃ per decade, 12.6 mm per decade, 6.4 d and 47 mm per decade in the 21st century. It is widely believed that these climate changes in the future will result in some apparent impacts on agro-ecosystems, water resources, wetland ecosystem, forest ecosystem, human health, energy sectors and other sensitive fields in Central China. Due to the limited scientific knowledge and researches, there are still some shortages in the climate change assessment methodologies and many uncertainties in the climate prediction results. Therefore, it is urgent and essential to increase the studies of the regional climate change adaptation, extend the research fields, and enhance the studies in the extreme weather and climate events to reduce the uncertainties of the climate change assessments.
Bibliography:In Central China, the obvious climate change has happened along with global warming. Based on the observational analysis, the climate change has significant effects, both positive and negative, in every field within the study area, and with the harmful effects far more prevalent. Under the A1B scenario, it is reported that temperature, precipitation, days of heat waves, and extreme precipitation intensity will increase at respective rates of 0.38℃ per decade, 12.6 mm per decade, 6.4 d and 47 mm per decade in the 21st century. It is widely believed that these climate changes in the future will result in some apparent impacts on agro-ecosystems, water resources, wetland ecosystem, forest ecosystem, human health, energy sectors and other sensitive fields in Central China. Due to the limited scientific knowledge and researches, there are still some shortages in the climate change assessment methodologies and many uncertainties in the climate prediction results. Therefore, it is urgent and essential to increase the studies of the regional climate change adaptation, extend the research fields, and enhance the studies in the extreme weather and climate events to reduce the uncertainties of the climate change assessments.
climate change; impact assessment; adaptation measure; uncertainty; Central China
11-5918/P
ISSN:1674-9278
1674-9278
DOI:10.3724/SP.J.1248.2013.215