Author(s)

Junhui Yan, Quansheng Ge, Haolong Liu, Jingyun Zheng, Hui Fu

Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, China.
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China.

We extracted 374 pieces of records of frost date from historical documents. Using these records, we reconstructed winter half-year (October to next April) temperature series, with a resolution of 5-year, for the North China Plain during 1651-2010. The results show that the temperature changes in the North China Plain were divided into four phases. With the reference period of 1951-1980, two cold phases, 1651-1700 and 1781-1900, have cold anomaly of 0.83°C and 0.60°C respectively. However, between the two cold phases, 1701-1780 was a relative warm phase with the cold anomaly of 0.36°C referring to the mean of 1951-1980. After the 1900, the climate came into a warm phase. The mean temperature of 1901-2010 was 0.11°C higher than the mean of 1951-1980. During 1651-2010, the 1996-2000 is the warmest 5-year with the warm anomaly of 1.25°C than that of the reference period of 1951-1980.

Historical Climatology; Temperature Reconstruction; Winter Half-Year; The North China Plain; 1651-2010

Yan, J. , Ge, Q. , Liu, H. , Zheng, J. and Fu, H. (2014) Reconstruction of Sub-Decadal Winter Half-Year Temperature during 1651-2010 for the North China Plain Using Records of Frost Date. Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, 4, 211-218. doi: 10.4236/acs.2014.42024.