Research Article

Cooling and Wetting Effects of Agricultural Development on Near-Surface Atmosphere over Northeast China

Table 5

Comparison of trends in growing season (May to September) and nongrowing season (October to April) , , , and DTR (°Cdecade−1), ea (hPadecade−1), and RH (%decade−1) of station groups with cultivated land fractions larger than 0.5 and smaller than 0.2.

GroupsGrowing seasonNongrowing season
DTRRHDTRRH

Difference

Difference

Arithmetic mean of the trend slopes of all stations in the group.
Calculating the station-averaged temperature time series from 1960 to 2014 first and then calculating the trend slope of the time series.
Computed by subtracting value of station group with from that of group with .