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 scenario A1B, it is reported that temperature, precipitation, days of heat waves and extreme precipitation intensity will increase at respective rates of 0.38 C 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.
College of Atmospheric Science, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China; Wuhan Regional Climate Center, Wuhan 430074, China; Meteorological Bureau of Hubei Province, 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
Recommended Citation:
Ren Y.-J.,Cui J.-X.,Wan S.-Q.,et al. Climate change impacts on central China and adaptation measures[J]. Advances in Climate Change Research,2013-01-01,4(4)