Attributions of floods/cooler along the Yangtze River Valley anddroughts/warmer in North China for the last 25 years have been reviewed in this paper. Both naturalclimate variability and human activities are considere...Attributions of floods/cooler along the Yangtze River Valley anddroughts/warmer in North China for the last 25 years have been reviewed in this paper. Both naturalclimate variability and human activities are considered. Some stronger evidences contributed to thenatural climate variability, such as decadal and interdecadal variabilities of East Asian summermonsoon, the periodicities and transitions of rainfall and temperature changes in China, abruptclimate change, NAO, AO, AAO, ENSO, and snow cover. The signals produced by the human activitiessuch as greenhouse gases and 'brown clouds' likely play the role for the patterns. But the physicalfeedbacks and mechanisms still keep ambiguous and vague. More researches should be carried out infuture to solve this issue.展开更多
基金This review was supported by China-IPCC Climate Special Projects and LCS Projects.
文摘Attributions of floods/cooler along the Yangtze River Valley anddroughts/warmer in North China for the last 25 years have been reviewed in this paper. Both naturalclimate variability and human activities are considered. Some stronger evidences contributed to thenatural climate variability, such as decadal and interdecadal variabilities of East Asian summermonsoon, the periodicities and transitions of rainfall and temperature changes in China, abruptclimate change, NAO, AO, AAO, ENSO, and snow cover. The signals produced by the human activitiessuch as greenhouse gases and 'brown clouds' likely play the role for the patterns. But the physicalfeedbacks and mechanisms still keep ambiguous and vague. More researches should be carried out infuture to solve this issue.
