Help me describe the figure on the following website: https://developers. google. com/static/ earth-engine/images/datasets/gifs/nasa_nex_07_2018.gif.
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The figure on the website is an animated GIF that shows the monthly average surface air temperature for the year 20181. The data is derived from the NASA Earth Exchange Global Daily Downscaled Projections (NEX-GDDP) dataset, which is a collection of climate model outputs that are downscaled to a 25 km resolution using a statistical technique1. The figure is an example of how Google Earth Engine can be used to visualize and analyze geospatial data at a planetary scale23. Google Earth Engine is a platform that combines a multi-petabyte catalog of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with cloud computing capabilities and geospatial APIs23. It enables scientists, researchers, and developers to perform geospatial processing at scale and create dynamic applications for Earth science data23.
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Tell me more details about the temperature in China from this GIF.
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The GIF shows that the temperature in China varied from month to month in 2018, with the highest temperatures occurring in July and August and the lowest temperatures occurring in January and December1. The temperature anomalies were generally positive, meaning that the temperatures were above the long-term average for most regions1. According to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), the 2018 temperature for Asia was 1.26°C (2.27°F) above average and the seventh highest in the 109-year record2. China experienced a heat wave in summer 2018, especially in northern China, where the maximum, mean, and minimum temperatures all reached record highs3. The heat wave was caused by the intensified and more northward western Pacific subtropical high, weakened Northeast China cold vortex, and positive geopotential height anomaly from northern China to the Sea of Japan3. On the other hand, China also experienced extremely low temperatures in winter 2018, especially in Mohe, the northernmost city of China, where the temperature plunged to minus 53°C (minus 63.4 degrees Fahrenheit) on December 6, 2018, which was its coldest ever recorded4. The low temperature was attributed to a strong cold air outbreak that swept across northeastern China4. These extreme temperature events in China are consistent with the projected trends of climate change, which indicate that China will face substantially hotter summers and winters by 2050 due to global warming.
The figure is a map of the global land cover types derived from the Terra and Aqua combined Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Land Cover Climate Modeling Grid (CMG) (MCD12C1) Version 6 data product1. It shows the dominant land cover class for each 0.05 degree pixel based on the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) classification scheme1. The IGBP scheme identifies 17 land cover classes, which include 11 natural vegetation classes, 3 developed and mosaicked land classes, and 3 non-vegetated land classes2. The map uses different colors to represent each land cover class, such as green for forests, brown for grasslands, yellow for croplands, and white for snow and ice3.
According to the figure, the land cover types in China vary greatly across different regions and show a zonal pattern of change1. The dominant land cover types in China are barren land, real steppe, desert steppe and forest1. Barren land mainly occurs in the high-altitude areas of the Tibetan Plateau and the western part of the Mongolian Plateau1. Real steppe and desert steppe are widely distributed in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and the northern part of China1. Forests are mainly concentrated in the northeast, southwest and southeast of China1. Other land cover types include meadow steppe, sand, desert, ice, water, cropland and built area1. Cropland and built area are mostly located in the lowland plains and basins along the eastern coast of China, where most of the population and arable land are based2.