Response relationships between abrupt seasonal temperature changes/warming (cooling) hiatuses in China and their...

The mechanisms of abrupt seasonal temperature changes and warming (cooling) hiatuses remain unclear. Clarifying how they respond to various influencing factors is critically important to understanding their mechanisms. In this study, the influencing factors to which the abrupt changes in T_av, T_nav, and T_xav were most sensitive followed the order of (AGG and CO₂) > SR > WS > AMO > PDO > MEI > AO > AP > RH. Seasonal Tav had the greatest sensitivity to all influencing factors, followed by seasonal Tav and lastly by seasonal T_xav. An abrupt temperature change occurred when AGG, AMO, or SR increased continuously to a certain value, when PDO was in a positive phase (warm phase) and increased continuously to a certain value, when MEI changed abruptly, when WS and RH continued to decline for a certain time and reached a certain tendency rate, or when AP continued to decline for a certain time and reached a certain value. During the period before and after the warming (cooling) hiatuses, the temperature at most of the stations only had a significant relationship with a few influencing factors, and the hiatuses in seasonal T_av, T_nav, and T_xav were overall most sensitive to changes in WS, followed by changes in RH and lastly by changes in AP. The occurrence of warming (cooling) hiatuses was highly consistent with the variation trend of some influencing factors, which to some extent affected the warming (cooling) hiatuses. Abrupt seasonal temperature changes/warming (cooling) hiatuses are the combined effects of multiple influencing factors.