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

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 643–652, 2018

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

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

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 643–652, 2018

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

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

Yan Li et al.

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RC1: 'Review ESSD-2017-55, Qingdao surface air temperature', Anonymous Referee #1, 22 Nov 2017
- AC1: 'Construction of surface air temperature series of Qingdao in China for the period 1899 to 2014', Yan LI, 05 Feb 2018
RC2: 'Review of ESSD-2017-55 - Surface air temperatures in Qingdao', Anonymous Referee #2, 27 Nov 2017
- AC3: 'Construction of surface air temperature series of Qingdao in China for the period 1899 to 2014', Yan LI, 05 Feb 2018

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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.