Recent Climate Change

In this part it is attempted to assess recent Climate Change in China over the past 50 years. Well-adopted statistical methods of trend computations that are commonly applied for climatic change studies were applied for this study based on monthly temperature records over the 50 year observation period 1951 - 2000 for totally 165 main meteorological stations. The reference stations are located all over China though they are preferably distributed over the eastern part of the country.

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