Construction of a surface air temperature series for Qingdao in China for the period 1899 to 2014

Li, Yan; Tinz, Birger; von Storch, Hans; Wang, Qingyuan; Zhou, Qingliang; Zhu, Yani

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-643-2018

Articles | Volume 10, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-643-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-643-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 1

28 Mar 2018

| 28 Mar 2018

Construction of a surface air temperature series for Qingdao in China for the period 1899 to 2014

Yan Li, Birger Tinz, Hans von Storch, Qingyuan Wang, Qingliang Zhou, and Yani Zhu

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Construction of surface air temperature series of Qingdao in China for the period 1899 to 2014 Yan Li, Birger Tinz, Hans von Storch, Qingyuan Wang, Qingliang Zhou, Yani Zhu https://doi.org/10.5676/DWD/Qing_v1

Short summary

In order to construct a long-term homogeneous surface air temperature (SAT) series (more than 100 years), based on quality control, interpolation and homogeneity methods, we objectively establish a set of homogenized monthly SAT series in Qingdao, China from 1899 to 2014. Then long-term climate change trends can be described. The SAT in Qingdao has a notable warming of 0.11 °C per decade during 1899–2014. The coldest period occurred in 1909–1918 and the warmest period occurred in 1999–2008.