Abstract: The “Three North Shelterbelt Program” and “Grain-for-Green Project” carried out by the governments were the dominant contributors to the desertification severity reversal in north china. Climate change and human activities were somewhat responsible for the decrease in desertification severity but significantly affected the increase in desertification extent. In order to clarifying the causes of rehabilitation in an agro-pastoral transitional zone of northern Shaanxi, this paper, based on the meteorological data of the 12 stations(1971-2010) in Yulin region, analysis the fundamental characteristics, temporal-spatial distribution and reasons of temperature change in the desertification reversal region, using methods of linear regression, Mann-Kendall mutation test, analysis of wavelets, kriging interpolation and other Climate diagnosis method. Research shows that the trend is concurrent that become warmer over the several decades, the increment of temperature in the northern region of Yulin had larger than that in the southern region; in recent 10 years temperature becomes cold in two areas. Both extreme high and average temperature declined gradually since 2000. The order of climate of temperature is that the south of Qinling mountains(0.121℃/10a)<Guangzhong(0.203℃/10a)<other regions of china (0.26±0.032℃/10a)<the south area(0.291℃/10a)<the north area(0.437℃/10a). The temperature mutation of south (1989) is earlier than the north (1994), which is earlier than the other regions of china (1993). The temperature is changing; however, the spatial distribution is largely unchanged, that is the characterized with a decrease from the southeast to northwest. The trends of temperature variation have certain spatial discrepancy. The geographic centers of temperature warming in the study area have moved to the southwest (Dingbian, jingbian). Based the climate characteristics, it was found that the influence of climate changing mainly reflects nature and human actives. Observations of temperatures in Yuyang or so support the hypothesis of the anthropogenic impact, but natural factors such as solar activity, El Nino/La Nina events, atmospheric circulation and the decreasing of relative humidity also take part in the modulation of temperature changes, especially in frequency band of inter-decadal variability. Atmospheric radiation is dropping year by year, La Nina frequently occurred, thus resulting in temperature cooling, which weaken the impact of human actives. A linear trend of sunshine duration during 1990–2010 is about -498.6h/ decade. Moreover, a linear trend of relative humidity during 1990–2010 is about -3.26%/ decade. There is pervasive evidence for nature and human actives forcing of the climate, however, its influencing mechanism is remained to be further investigated.