英文摘要 |
In response to the needs of the Taiwan Climate Change Projection and Adaptation Information Platform (TCCIP) promoted by the National Science and Technology Council, we collected temperature data and integrated them from stations of the Central Weather Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation and Communication, Water Resources Agency of Ministry of Economic Affairs, and Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute and Forestry Research Institute of the Council of Agriculture of Executive Yuan. We used these station data and produced a temperature grid database with a resolution of 1 km from 1960 to 2017. This long-term trend analysis of daily temperature gridded data shows that the daily average temperature and daily minimum temperature are trends of warming, especially the daily minimum temperature has the largest warming amplitude. On the contrary, the daily maximum temperature shows a cooling trend in mountainous areas, which is different from the results of previous dynamic models (Lin and Cheng 2022). To further explore the reasons for this cooling situation in mountainous areas, the trends of cloud cover, cloud water content, and cloud optical depth data from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) show that the decreasing trend of daily maximum temperature in Taiwan’s mountainous areas is related to the increase of daytime cloud cover. In addition, the ERA5 data of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) are also analyzed, including average temperature, maximum and minimum temperature, solar shortwave radiation, rainfall, water vapor divergence field, and 500mb gravitational potential height field. The data show that some analysis results of the ERA5 data support the trend of cooling in the mountainous area with the daily maximum temperature grid data. Although the number of stations in Taiwan's mountainous areas is insufficient, which leads to the grid data of rainfall and temperature having great uncertainty, the cloud data of ISCCP and the results of ERA5 point out that under a warming climate, the increase of moisture caused by the enhanced convergence may intensify the hydrological cycle and thereby increasing the cloud amount. This would lead to a reduction of insolation and in-turn affects the downward trend of daytime maximum temperature in Taiwan's mountainous areas. In other words, Taiwan may have a negative feedback mechanism of the hydrological cycle, resulting in a long-term trend of the maximum temperature decline in mountainous areas under global warming. |