Climate and Environmental Change

Impact of climate variation on fog in China

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  • 1. Key Laboratory of Arid Climatic Variation and Disaster Reduction, Institute of Arid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Lanzhou 730020, China|
    2. National Meteorological Information Center, Beijing 100081, China

Received date: 2005-10-19

  Revised date: 2006-02-24

  Online published: 2006-12-25

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The key project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, No.2004DKA20170-02

Abstract

Using foggy days and mean temperature and relative humidity data of 602 stations from January to December in the period 1961–2003 in China, the relationship between variations of foggy days and temperature and its possible reason for the 43 years were analyzed by regression, correlation and contrastive analysis methods. The results show that the higher (lower) the mean temperature and the lower (higher) the relative humidity correspond to less (more) foggy days, the relationship is the best in the western, northern and eastern Sichuan, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, and southeast highland in China. This induces a decrease in relative humidity when the climate becomes warmer, and eventually brings about a decrease in foggy days in China.

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CHEN Shaoyong, SHI Yuanyuan, WANG Liping, DONG Anxiang . Impact of climate variation on fog in China[J]. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2006 , 16(4) : 430 -438 . DOI: 10.1007/s11442-006-0406-6

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