Abstract
Gridded meteorological datasets offer valuable data sources for monitoring and studying climate extremes. Based on the 2291 CMA meteorological observations, this paper evaluates and compares seven high-resolution gridded datasets and a global climate extremes indices datasets, HadEX3. Temporal and spatial consistency are assessed at the location of CMA observations. High-resolution gridded products and HadEX3 can effectively monitor the inter-annual changes in the overall mean of extreme temperature. The temporal consistency of precipitation indices is lower due to uneven spatial distribution of precipitation. Each high-resolution gridded dataset shows good consistency in depicting the spatial distribution patterns of extreme climate. However, at locations of the observations, different indices have larger or smaller biases. These are mainly due to the spatial scale of gridded datasets and calculation and operation order of extreme indices. The study emphasizes the importance of in-situ observations in improving data accuracy. At the same time, it is found that the generation method of the dataset has an impact on the quality, and satellite and model simulation data as background fields can compensate for the lack of spatial coverage of int-situ observations. In the study of extreme climate, appropriate datasets should be selected according to different research purposes.
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