CAS Climate Change Science Project: Centennial warming and controls (XDA05090000)

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    CAS Climate Change Science Project: Centennial warming and controls (XDA05090000), PI: YAN Zhongwei, 2011-2015. This project brings together over 70 scientists from CAS, CMA, and several universities, and aims to enhance scientific understandings on general trends and heterogeneity of warming over East Asia in past 100 years, to detect the signals of urban expansion in meteorological records and possible regional climate forcing, and to project future changes in air temperature in next 20-30 years with improved regional models. Major efforts are made to further correct and calibrate daily temperature records and metadata of over two thousands meteorological stations in the country, to quantify urban cover fractions and decadal changes at site and regional scales for gaining more reliable warming trends, and to improvement of model performance.