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Maximum wind speed changes over China
- Source :
- Acta Meteorologica Sinica. 27:63-74
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2013.
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Abstract
- In this study, the maximum wind speed (WSmax) changes across China from 1956 to 2004 were analyzed based on observed station data, and the changes of WSmax for 2046ā2065 and 2080ā2099 are projected using three global climate models (GFDL_CM2_0, CCCMA_CGCM3, and MRI_CGCM2) that have participated in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). The observed annual and seasonal WSmax and the frequency of gale days showed obvious declining trends. The annual WSmax decreased by approximately 1.46 m sā1 per decade, and the number of gale days decreased by 3.0 days per decade from 1956 to 2004. The amplitudes of the annual and seasonal WSmax decreases are larger than those of the annual and seasonal average wind speeds (WSavg). The weakening of the East Asian winter and summer monsoons is the cause for the distinct decreases of both WSmax and WSavg over the whole China. The decrease of WSmax in the southeast coastal areas of China is related to the reduced intensity of cold waves in China and the decreasing number (and decreasing intensity) of land-falling typhoons originated in the Northwest Pacific Ocean.
Details
- ISSN :
- 21914788 and 08940525
- Volume :
- 27
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Acta Meteorologica Sinica
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........fb8f66a9041b4ea60208426cbd24a620