Analysis of characteristics of climate change and agricultural disastrous weather in Jinjiang City over the past 50 years

In this paper, characteristics and regularity of climate change and agricultural disastrous weather in Jinjiang City were analyzed using climatological data between 1961-2010 and with comparison of climatological data between 2011-2016. The results showed that there was upward trend of temperature and rainfall and downward trend of sunshine hours in nearly half a century. Sudden changes of temperature obviously occurred. Climate warming was mostly attributed by winter. Since the 21st century, summer and autumn offered most of excessive amount of precipitation. Since 1991, the possibility of low temperature and overcast rain in spring and cold dew wind in autumn significantly decreased and their intensity weakened while frequency and intensity of heavy rain and heavy downpour evidently increased, precipitation relatively concentrated, and probability of severe drought occurrence had obvious increasing trend.