Recognition of Changes in Air and Soil Temperatures at a Station Typical of China’s Subtropical Monsoon Region (1961–2018)

Table 4

Interdecadal difference between mean soil temperature and air temperature, annual mean temperature difference in recent 58 years, and the rate of climatic trend of annual mean temperature difference at the Nanchang Weather Station.

Index	Interdecadal						Annual mean	Climatic trend rate
	1960s	1970s	1980s	1990s	2000s	2010s
0 cm air	2.4	2.2	2.1	2.2	2.1	2.0	2.2	−0.069
20 cm air	2.1	1.8	1.7	1.6	1.3	1.3	1.6	−0.151
80 cm air	2.1	1.9	1.8	1.6	1.3	1.2	1.7	−0.181
320 cm air	1.9	1.9	1.8	1.5	1.2	1.2	1.6	−0.152