Analysis on Climate Change of Nantong for Nearly 60 Years

Nantong is chosen as the object of study in this paper. According to the meteorological observational data for the period from 1951 to 2010 in Nantong, the changes of climate variables on the time series for nearly 60 years are analyzed through estimation of linear tendency and sliding average. It is found that: in the past 60 years, the average temperature is rising at the rate of 0.297°C / 10a, where the warming trend in spring is the most significant, and that in summer is the least. The trends of the min-mean and max-mean temperature are on the rise. The rapidly increasing changes of the extreme minimum and maximum temperature are observed. Over the past 60 years, the tendency of precipitation is generally on the rise with the small rate. The increasing trend of precipitation in summer is the most pronounced, followed by winter. Precipitation in spring and autumn is slightly decreasing. The contribution of the increase in precipitation mainly derives from the addition in summer and winter.