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DOI	10.1016/j.accre.2022.04.008
	Detection and projection of climatic comfort changes in China's mainland in a warming world
	Zhang, Jin-Tao; Ren, Guo-Yu; You, Qing-Long
发表日期	2022
ISSN	1674-9278
起始页码	507
结束页码	516
卷号	13 期号:4 页码:10
英文摘要	Climatic comfort, which refers to the comfort of the human body's thermal sensations, is important for the human habitat. Although considerable efforts have been provided to examine changes in climatic comfort response to global warming from a partial perspective, the trajectory shift in past and future climatic comfort conditions in China's mainland based on uniform indicators has not been revealed. The spatiotemporal pattern of climatic comfort over historical and future periods was investigated in this study, using China's mainland as an example. The temperature -humidity index was adopted on the basis of homogenised meteorological station observations and high-resolution climate model simulations to analyse the trends of comfort/discomfort days from 1960 to 2017 and project changes in climatic comfort under representative concentration pathway scenarios in the late 21st century (2071-2100). Results show a substantial decrease in cold -uncomfortable days and a moderate increase in comfortable and warm-uncomfortable days from 1960 to 2017. In the late 21st century, the signals of increasing warm-uncomfortable and decreasing cold-uncomfortable days are projected to enhance significantly while the direction of changes in comfortable days exhibits a north -south divergence. The uneven changes in warm-and cold-uncomfortable days and an overall decrease in comfortable days in the late 21st century dominate the future trends in climatic comfort in the densely populated southeast half of China. Effective measures taken for adapting to and mitigating global climate warming can considerably avoid the adverse impact of the projected change.
英文关键词	Comfort; Climate change; Temperature-humidity index; Projection; China's mainland
学科领域	Environmental Sciences; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000844606300001
来源期刊	ADVANCES IN CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/273991
作者单位	China Meteorological Administration; Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS); China Meteorological Administration; Fudan University; China University of Geosciences; China Meteorological Administration
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Jin-Tao,Ren, Guo-Yu,You, Qing-Long. Detection and projection of climatic comfort changes in China's mainland in a warming world[J],2022,13(4):10.
APA	Zhang, Jin-Tao,Ren, Guo-Yu,&You, Qing-Long.(2022).Detection and projection of climatic comfort changes in China's mainland in a warming world.ADVANCES IN CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH,13(4),10.
MLA	Zhang, Jin-Tao,et al."Detection and projection of climatic comfort changes in China's mainland in a warming world".ADVANCES IN CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH 13.4(2022):10.