Zuqiang Zhang

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Climate Monitoring in China and Future Relevant
activities

• Zuqiang Zhang
• National Climate Center, CMA
• WMO CCL ET2.2 meeting in Tarragona
• Sep. 20-22, 2006

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Outline

• Overview on the status of climate monitoring in
  China
• Application of Marine and Satellite date in
  climate monitoring
• Monitoring on Extreme weather/climate events
• National climate observatory network of China

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Basic Strategy
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Operational climate monitoring system
Aim Monitoring and analysis the climate
condition Elements Precipitation
Temperature (mean ,maximum, minimum) Wind
speed Humidity Sunshine Duration Time
scales Daily,10-days, monthly,
seasonal, annual, any period Method
(statistics) Mean ,Total, Anomaly
,Extreme,
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Daily, pentad, monthly, seasonal and annual
timescales
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East Asian Summer Monsoon System
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Moisture transportation of EASM
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Operational system and service for drought
Drought monitoring
Drought Assessment
Drought service for various users Production
Information collection of Drought disaster
Drought Pre-Assessment and early warning
Weather Forecast Weekly advance
Climate Prediction Monthly, flood season,
annual
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Drought Monitoring System
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Drought Frequency during 1951 -2003
Arid area
East of Northwest China and North China
Spring \Spring and Summer\ Summer \ Summer and
Autumn
Yangtze River Basin
Summer\Autumn
Southwest China
South China
End of Autumn\Winter\Early spring
Winter\Spring
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Global drought monitoring
Drought monitoring in Eurasian region
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Snow Monitoring
Fog Monitoring
Dust Storm Monitoring
Heat Wave Monitoring
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Days with Snow in each calendar month
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Monthly Sea Ice Concentration (left) and
Anomalies in the northern hemisphere (right)
(unit) 2006. 1 solid line----positive value
dashed line---- negative value isoline
interval----20
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Net Primary Productivity (NPP) Distribution over
land of China
Vegetation Distribution over land of China in
Mar.14,2005
Atmosphere-vegetation-Interaction-Model
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• Application of Marine and Satellite Data in
  Climate Monitoring

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GODAS of BCC
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Global SST Climatology
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2.5S-2.5N mean SST and salinity climatology
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Climate mean depth for 20C isotherm
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FOG
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Dust storm
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location of the flooding area
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Sea ice monitoring
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Persisting days for snow cover
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Snow cover in the winter of 2005/2006
Early Nov. 2005
Middle Nov. 2005
Late Nov. 2005
Early Dec. 2005
Middle Dec. 2005
Late Dec. 2005

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Vegetation change
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Unusual vegetation change ? Drought monitoring
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Heated island of City
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Climate Change Area of Qinghai Lake
1988 1989 1991 1994
1995 1996 1997
1999 2000 2001 2002
2003 2004
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• Area of Qinhai Lake

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Trend of total cloud amount during 1983-2001
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Monitoring on Extreme Events
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Global extreme event monitoring
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Extreme Maximum temperature
Time series of days number of Dust storm in Feb.
in Northern China
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• Future relevant activities in climate
  Monitoring in China
• National climate Observatory Network

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Planned location of the climate observatory
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Atmospheric Boundary Layer Tower
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Lake- and Ocean-Atmosphere interaction
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Forest, Greenland and wet land
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Grassland
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Glacier
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Regional Biosphere
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Atmospheric Environment in economic regions
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Plateau and Desert
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Thank you !