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Changes in daily climate extremes in the arid area of northwestern China

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There has been a paucity of information on trends in daily climate and climate extremes, especially for the arid region. We analyzed the changes in the indices of climate extremes, on the basis of daily maximum and minimum air temperature and precipitation at 59 meteorological stations in the arid region of northwest China over the period 1960–2003. Twelve indices of extreme temperature and six indices of extreme precipitation are examined. Temperature extremes show a warming trend with a large proportion of stations having statistically significant trends for all temperature indices. The regional occurrence of extreme cool days and nights has decreased by −0.93 and −2.36 days/decade, respectively. Over the same period, the occurrence of extreme warm days and nights has increased by 1.25 and 2.10 days/decade, respectively. The number of frost days and ice days shows a statistically significant decrease at the rate of −3.24 and −2.75 days/decade, respectively. The extreme temperature indices also show the increasing trend, with larger values for the index describing variations in the lowest minimum temperature. The trends of Min Tmin (Tmax) and Max Tmin (Tmax) are 0.85 (0.61) and 0.32 (0.17) °C/decade. Most precipitation indices exhibit increasing trends across the region. On average, regional maximum 1-day precipitation, annual total wet-day precipitation, and number of heavy precipitation days and very wet days show insignificant increases. Insignificant decreasing trends are also found for consecutive dry days. The rank-sum statistic value of most temperature indices exhibits consistent or statistically significant trends across the region. The regional medians after 1986 of Min Tmin (Tmax), Max Tmin (Tmax), warm days (nights), and warm spell duration indicator show statistically more larger than medians before 1986, but the frost days, ice days, cool days (nights), and diurnal temperature range reversed. The medians of precipitation indices show insignificant change except for consecutive dry days before and after 1986.

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The research is supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program: 2010CB951003). The authors thank the National Climate Central, China Meteorological Administration, for providing the meteorological data for this study. Assistance on data processing from Li CX is greatly appreciated.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Urumqi, Xinjiang, 830011, China

    Huaijun Wang, Yaning Chen, Dongmei Lai, Yuting Fan & Zhi Li

  2. The Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 10049, China

    Huaijun Wang, Dongmei Lai, Yuting Fan & Zhi Li

  3. Department of Geography, Dartmouth College, 6017 Fairchild, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA

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Wang, H., Chen, Y., Xun, S. et al. Changes in daily climate extremes in the arid area of northwestern China. Theor Appl Climatol 112, 15–28 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-012-0698-7

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