IV. CONCLUSIONS This study has presented continuous positive anomalies in both mean maximum and minimum temperature between the years 1975 to 2015. The increase of maximum temperature, minimum temperature, summer days, and warm days were between 0.25~0.35°C/decade, 0.04~0.27°C/decade, 12~19 days/decade, and 1~5 days/decade, respectively. Both decreasing and increasing trends in number of cool days and cool nights were observed. On the other hand, trends in annual total precipitation and number of heavy precipitation days indicate a slightly increase in the range of 2~29 mm/decade and 0.25~0.97 mm/decade, respectively. Most of the stations describe decreasing trends in extreme wet days and consecutive dry days. This study provides evidence on the pattern of climate change in the dry region as well as the possible impacts on various aspects of which the impacts on forest ecosystems in Myanmar are under investigation by the authors. ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors would like to express their deepest gratitude to the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH), Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, for providing long-term historical climate data records. The authors also wish to acknowledge the project “Analysis of historical forest carbon changes in Myanmar and Thailand and the contribution of climate variability and extreme events” funded by USAID and National Science Foundation (NSF) USA under Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER) program. REFERENCES 1 IPCC, Climate Change 2007. The Physical Science Basis, Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovern- Rmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2007. 2 J. Alcamo, N. Dronin, M. Endejan, G. Golubev, and A. Kirilenko, “A new assessment of climate change impacts on food production shortfalls and water a v a i l a b i l i t y i n Russia,” Global Environmen-tal Change, Vol.17, no.3-4, pp.429-444, 2007. 3 TR. Karl, N. Nicholls, and A. Ghazi, “CLIVAR/ GCOS/WMO workshop on indices and indicators for climate extremes.” Climatic Change, 42: 3-7, 1999. 4 K. Sönke, D. Eckstein, L. Dorsch, and L. Fischer, Global climate risk index 2016: Who suffers most from Extreme weather events? Weather- related loss events in 2014 and 1995 to 2014. 2015. 5 D.R. Easterling, B. Horton, Ph.D. Jones et. al., “Maximum and minimum temperature trends for the Globe,” Science, Vol.277, no. July, pp.364-367, 1997. 6 X. Zhang, L.A. Vincent, W.D. Hogg et. al., “Temperature and precipitation trends in Canada during the 20th century,” Atmosphere-Ocean, Vol.38, no.3, pp.395-429, 2000. 7 D.R. Eas ter l ing, G.A Meehl, C. Parmesan et. al., “Climate extremes: observation, modeling, and impacts,” Science, Vol.289, no.5487, pp.2068- 2974, 2000. 8 M.J. Manton, P.M. Della-marta, M.R. Haylock et. al., “Trends in extreme daily rainfall and temperature in Proceedings of the International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for the 301 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Policy and Practice 27-29 June 2016, Cha-am, Phetchaburi, Thailand
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