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DOI	10.1002/joc.7314
	The development of long temperature and precipitation series for Ascension Island
	Jones, Philip D.; Lister, David H.
通讯作者	Jones, PD (corresponding author), Univ East Anglia, Sch Environm Sci, Climat Res Unit, Norwich NR4 7TJ, Norfolk, England.
来源期刊	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY
ISSN	0899-8418
EISSN	1097-0088
出版年	2021-08
英文摘要	Ascension Island has had a long intermittent record of instrumental weather recording. Here, we develop monthly records of mean temperature and precipitation totals (for 1924-2020 when an almost complete record is available) from the three principal recording sites: the capital Georgetown and two gauges at Wideawake Airfield. Although some of the data are in global climate databases, we have sourced as much data as possible from the primary sources in the United Kingdom, the United States and from the island itself. Air temperature shows statistically significant warming since 1950 of 0.54 degrees C and since 1979 of 0.40 degrees C, and agrees closely with sea surface temperatures, taken from the seas around the island, back to the start of the island series in 1924. Although the island is too small to be in Reanalyses, the warming trends of air temperatures from these products also agree, but the absolute air temperature values are about 1 degrees C cooler than measured on the island. Annual precipitation on the island indicates it is very arid, with a long-term average of only 165 mm. Occasionally, heavy monthly precipitation totals occur (always between February and June) which bring severe damage to the island's infrastructure and ecosystems. The heaviest monthly total was 334 mm for April 1985.
英文关键词	air temperature Ascension Island observations < 1 Tools and methods precipitation tropics < 5 Geographic climatic zone
类型	Article ; Early Access
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000683074900001
WOS关键词	ATLANTIC
WOS类目	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
WOS研究方向	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/367568
作者单位	[Jones, Philip D.; Lister, David H.] Univ East Anglia, Sch Environm Sci, Climat Res Unit, Norwich NR4 7TJ, Norfolk, England
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jones, Philip D.,Lister, David H.. The development of long temperature and precipitation series for Ascension Island[J],2021.
APA	Jones, Philip D.,&Lister, David H..(2021).The development of long temperature and precipitation series for Ascension Island.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY.
MLA	Jones, Philip D.,et al."The development of long temperature and precipitation series for Ascension Island".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY (2021).