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十堰市气候干旱分析及预报指标 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
利用十堰市7个代表站1953-2006年的降水资料和气温资料,用降水距平百分率（R指标）这一传统的干旱等级划分方法,并考虑到气温引入了P指标对干旱等级进行了划分,揭示了该区域干旱发生的基本特征。结果表明：十堰是我国中部地区干旱频发地区之一,干旱存在自身的周期性和连续发生的规律,地理分布是北部重于南部。造成十堰干旱的主要天气系统是东亚大槽、副热带高压和青藏高压（大陆高压）。这3个系统交替影响并控制该市：春季主要是东亚大槽稳定;夏季副热带高压控制为主、大陆高压控制次之;秋季大陆高压控制为主、副热带高压控制次之。根据不同季节和不同类型的干旱,给出了具体的预报指标。 相似文献
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Babatunde J. Abiodun Ayobami T. Salami Olaniran J. Matthew Sola Odedokun 《Climate Dynamics》2013,41(2):277-293
Afforestation is usually thought as a good approach to mitigate impacts of warming over a region. This study presents an argument that afforestation may have bigger impacts than originally thought by previous studies. The study investigates the impacts of afforestation on future climate and extreme events in Nigeria, using a regional climate model (RegCM3), forced with global climate model simulations. The impacts of seven afforestation options on the near future (2031–2050, under A1B scenario) climate and the extreme events are investigated. RegCM3 replicates essential features in the present-day (1981–2000) climate and the associated extreme events, and adequately simulates the seasonal variations over the ecological zones in the country. However, the model simulates the seasonal climate better over the northern ecological zones than over the southern ecological zones. The simulated spatial distribution of the extreme events agrees well with the observation, though the magnitude of the simulated events is smaller than the observed. The study shows that afforestation in Nigeria could have both positive and negative future impacts on the climate change and extreme events in the country. While afforestation reduces the projected global warming and enhances rainfall over the afforested area (and over coastal zones), it enhances the warming and reduces the rainfall over the north-eastern part of the country. In addition, the afforestation induces more frequent occurrence of extreme rainfall events (flooding) over the coastal region and more frequent occurrence of heat waves and droughts over the semi-arid region. The positive and negative impacts of the afforestation are not limited to Nigeria; they extend to the neighboring countries. While afforestation lowers the warming and enhances rainfall over Benin Republic, it increases the warming and lowers the rainfall over Niger, Chad and Cameroon. The result of the study has important implication for the ongoing climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts in Nigeria. 相似文献
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How climate change impacted the collapse of the Ming dynasty 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Jingyun Zheng Lingbo Xiao Xiuqi Fang Zhixin Hao Quansheng Ge Beibei Li 《Climatic change》2014,127(2):169-182
Based on the reconstructed temperatures, precipitation changes, and occurrences of extreme climate events, together with historical records on fiscal deterioration, food crises, and the frequencies of popular unrest, rebellions and wars, we identified three principal ways in which climate change contributed to the collapse in the Ming dynasty. Firstly, cooling, aridification, and desertification during a cold period destroyed the military farm system, which was the main supply system for the provisioning of government troops on the northern frontiers; these impacts increased the military expenditure from 64 % of total government expenditure in 1548–1569 to 76 % in 1570–1589 and thus aggravated the national fiscal crisis that occurred during the late Ming dynasty. Secondly, climate deterioration (e.g., cooling, aridification, and an increase in the frequencies of frost- and drought-related disasters, etc.) led to a 20–50 % reduction in the per capita production of raw grain in most areas of China, which resulted in widespread food crises and exacerbated the vulnerability of social structures during the last several decades of the Ming dynasty. Thirdly, the severe droughts occurring in 1627–1643 were a key trigger to the peasantry uprising. These droughts also played a significant role to promote the peasantry uprising, especially reviving the peasantry troops by recruitment of famine victims when they nearly perished in 1633 and 1638, and severely disrupting the food supply for the government troops, resulting in the final defeat of the government troops by the peasantry troops. This study contributes to an understanding of the climate-related mechanisms behind the collapse of the Ming dynasty, and provides a historical case study that enhances our understanding of the nature of interactions between climate change and social vulnerability. 相似文献
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长治地区干旱分析和降水预报 总被引：2，自引：2，他引：2
对长治、沁县等11个测站1960~2000年3~8月逐月降水资料进行统计分析,根据旱月出现个数、发生月份、干旱程度、持续时间和对农业生产危害程度,将长治地区的春旱和夏旱各分6个等级,从中寻找春夏两季干旱发生的规律。利用最优子集回归方法建立了春夏两季降水预报方程,对长治地区春夏两季降水定量预报进行了初步研究,并初步确定了影响长治地区春夏两季降水的主要因子是西北太平洋平均海温、长治县的地温等因子,2001~2004年预报准确率达87.5%。 相似文献
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Olajire J. Olaniran 《Climatic change》1991,19(3):319-340
Annual series of light rainfall, moderate rainfall and heavy rainfall are computed for 4 zones arranged from south to north in Nigeria: Coastal, Guinea-Savanna, Midland and Sahelian zones. Daily rainfall data for the period 1919–85 are utilized. Each series is examined for evidence of change in structure in terms of pattern of decrease and increase in dry and wet years, the overall trend, and the occurrence of runs of dry and wet years. The northern Nigeria (Midland and Sahel) heavy rainfall series and the Sahel moderate rainfall series are found to depict evidence of climatic change as defined by Landsberg (1975) that climatic conditions must change to a new equilibrium position with the values of climatic elements changed significantly. On the other hand Landsberg's definition of climatic fluctuations as involving temporary deflection which can revert to earlier conditions is found to fit the 4 regional light rainfall series and the Midland area moderate rainfall series. The southern Nigeria moderate and heavy rainfall series are found to depict only evidence of high frequency oscillations about a stable long-term mean. The recent drought in Nigeria north of about 9° N is shown to be associated with a large decline in moderate and heavy rainfalls over this part of the country. 相似文献
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Summary Evidence for changes in the annual and growing season rainfall series for the period 1919 to 1985 in Nigeria are examined on a regional basis, using power-spectral and lowpass filter techniques, and the Mann-Kendall rank statistic. Four regions, the Coastal Zone, the Guinea-Savanna Zone, the Midland area and the Sahel, are used in the investigation of rainfall variation from south to north across the country.Quasi-periodic oscillations in the annual and growing season rainfall series are found to be concentrated in four spectral bands: 2.0–2.4, 2.7–2.9, 3.2–3.6 and 5.6–6.3 years. The spatial coherence of the fluctuations in annual and growing season rainfall is found to be limited to Nigeria south of 11 degrees north latitude. Evidence also emerges of a progressive decline in annual and growing season rainfall for northern Nigeria, north of nine degrees north latitude, for the period 1939–1985.With 5 Figures 相似文献
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Sharon E. Nicholson 《Climatic change》2001,50(3):317-353
This article describes a historical archive of proxy and actual precipitation data that extends the African climate record back to the early nineteenth century. The `proxy' archive includes verbal, documentary references which contain information related to rainfall conditions, such as references to famine, drought, agriculture or the nature of the rainy season. The precipitation archive includes all observations made in Africa during the nineteenth century. It consists of records for 60 stations in Algeria, 87 stations in South Africa and 304 stations scattered over the rest of Africa. Information is particularly plentiful for the 1880s and 1890s. The two parts have been be combined into a semi-quantitative regional data set indicating annual rainfall conditions in terms of anomaly classes (e.g., normal, dry, wet). This data set extends from the early nineteenth century to 1900 and distinguishes seven anomaly classes, using numbers ranging from –3 to +3 to represent very wet, wet, good rains, normal, dry, drought, and severe drought. The regionalization is based on 90 geographical regions shown via studies of the modern precipitation record to be climatically homogeneous with respect to the interannual variability of rainfall. The regional aggregation allows the voluminous fragmentary information available in historical sources to be used systematically to produce multi-year time series that can be directly integrated into the modern record for each region. The resultant time series can also be subjected to statistical analysis, in order to investigate nineteenth century climate over Africa. Spatial detail is added to the data set by utilizing a unique methodology based on climatic teleconnections established from studies of rainfall variability over Africa. The historical information and station records have been combined into a file containing a regional anomaly value for up to 90 geographic regions and the years 1801–1900. Gaps necessarily remain in the matrix, but as early as the 1820s over 40 regions are represented. By the 1880s generally around 70 regions or more are represented. 相似文献
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Climatic regime shift and decadal anomalous events in China 总被引：15，自引：0，他引：15
Climatic time series from historical documents and instrumental records from China showed temporal and regional patterns in
the last two to three centuries, including two multidecadal oscillations at quasi-20-year and quasi-70-year timescales revealed
by signal analysis from wavelet transform. Climatic anomalous events on the decadal timescale were identified based on the
two oscillations when their positive (or negative) phases coincide with each other to amplify amplitude. The coldest event
occurred in the decade of 1965–1975 in eastern China, while the periods of 1920–1930, 1940–1950, and 1988–2000 appeared to
be warmer in most parts of China. For the precipitation series in northern China, the dry anomalous event was found in the
late 1920s, while the wet anomalous event occurred in the 1950s. A severe drought in 1927–1929 in northern China coincided
with the anomalous warm and dry decade, caused large-scale famine in nine provinces over northern China. Climatic anomalous
events with a warm-dry or cold-wet association in the physical climate system would potentially cause severe negative impacts
on natural ecosystem in the key vulnerable region over northern China. The spatial pattern of summer rainfall anomalies in
the eastern China monsoon region showed an opposite variations in phase between the Yellow River Valley (North China) and
the mid-low Yangtze River Valley as well as accompanied the shift of the northernmost monsoon boundary. Climatic regime shifts
for different time points in the last 200 years were identified. In North China, transitions from dry to wet periods occurred
around 1800, 1875, and 1940 while the transitions from wet to dry periods appeared around 1840, 1910, and the late 1970s.
The reversal transition in these time points can also be found in the lower Yangtze River. Climatic regime shifts in China
were linked to the interaction of mid- and low latitude atmospheric circulations (the westerly flow and the monsoon flow)
when they cross the Tibetan Plateau in East Asia. 相似文献
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Around 1550 AD a megadrought occurred in Mexico, possibly resulting in the death of over 80% of the Indian population at that time from disease. By any measure this was a major disaster that warrants serious examination. A 10,000-year simulation with the CSIRO Mark2 coupled global climatic model has been used to investigate the existence and genesis of major droughts in the Mexican region. One megadrought event was identified and a number of droughts lasting a decade or longer were also found. Average reductions in rainfall of 20 to 40% over the duration of these droughts were found to occur. While there is a mechanistic link between El Niño events and drought over Mexico, this link is tenuous, as shown by observations and this simulation. Stochastic processes appear to have a considerable influence on Mexican rainfall, and contribute to the weakness of the El Niño influence on such rainfall. It is shown that for both El Niño events and stochastic processes drought is created over Mexico by the reduction of the intensity of the climatological high pressure system in this region. This reduces the influx of moisture associated with the monsoonal system and thus rainfall. While only one 'megadrought' was found in the 10,000-year simulation thirteen droughts lasting over a decade occurred, suggesting that a devastating drought in the Mexican region has a return period of less than 1000 years and represents a non-trivial potential problem for this region. 相似文献
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本文利用多种地面精细观测资料,统计分析得到近55a宁夏春季干旱的精细化空间分布和多时间尺度变化特征。结果表明:在采用了更为精细的观测资料后,宁夏春季干旱的分布显得更为不均,呈中部多发南北少发的分布特征而干旱平均强度却呈中部弱南北强的分布特征;最大春季干旱强度分布呈明显的多极性分布。在宁夏5地市中,吴忠市、银川市、中卫市3市较易发生干旱。宁夏春季干旱发生次数基本呈逐年增加的趋势,但平均强度呈逐年减弱的趋势;年代际发生次数的增加趋势更加明显;在20世纪80年代前后存在1次突变。春季干旱强度具有较为稳定的气候态,3、5月易出现大范围轻旱以上的干旱过程;3月上旬、5月上旬、5月下旬较易出现重旱级别的干旱过程。500hPa大陆高压脊与大气环流的变化是造成西北地区春季干旱强弱分布的主要原因之一。 相似文献
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Patricio Aceituno Maríadel del Rosario Prieto María Eugenia Solari Alejandra Martínez Germán Poveda Mark Falvey 《Climatic change》2009,92(3-4):389-416
At times when attention on climate issues is strongly focused on the assessment of potential impacts of future climate change due to the intensification of the planetary greenhouse effect, it is perhaps pertinent to look back and explore the consequences of past climate variability. In this article we examine a large disruption in global climate that occurred during 1877–1878, when human influence was negligible. The mechanisms explaining this global disturbance are not well established, but there is considerable evidence that the major El Niño episode that started by the end of 1876 and peaked during the 1877–1878 boreal winter contributed significantly to it. The associated regional climate anomalies were extremely destructive, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere, where starvation due to intense droughts in Asia, South-East Asia and Africa took the lives of more than 20 million people. In South America regional precipitation anomalies were typical of El Niño events, with rainfall deficit and droughts in the northern portion of the continent as well as in northeast Brazil and the highlands of the central Andes (Altiplano). In contrast, anomalously intense rainfall and flooding episodes were reported for the coastal areas of southern Ecuador and Northern Perú, as well as along the extratropical West coast of the continent (central Chile, 30° S–40° S), and in the Paraná basin in the southeast region. By far the most devastating impacts in terms of suffering and loss of life occurred in the semiarid region of northeast Brazil where several hundreds of thousands of people died from starvation and diseases during the drought that started in 1877. 相似文献
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Recent drought and precipitation tendencies in Ethiopia 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
Ellen Viste Diriba Korecha Asgeir Sorteberg 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》2013,112(3-4):535-551
In 2011, drought in the Horn of Africa again made news headlines. This study aims to quantify the meteorological component of this and other drought episodes in Ethiopia since 1971. A monthly precipitation data set for 14 homogeneous rainfall zones was constructed based on 174 gauges, and the standardized precipitation index was calculated on seasonal, annual, and biannual time scales. The results point to 2009 as a year of exceptionally widespread drought. All zones experienced drought at the annual scale, although in most zones, previous droughts were more extreme. Nationally, 2009 was the second driest year, surpassed only by the historic year 1984. Linear regression analysis indicates a precipitation decline in southern Ethiopia, during both February–May and June–September. In central and northern Ethiopia, the analysis did not provide evidence of similar tendencies. However, spring droughts have occurred more frequently in all parts of Ethiopia during the last 10–15 years. 相似文献
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利用我国地面观测站降水资料以及欧洲中期数值预报中心 (ECMWF) 的月平均再分析资料, 研究了在全球平均表面气温偏冷和偏暖阶段, 我国东部降水开始和结束时间以及雨带南北移动的变化, 并分析了与东部降水变化相关联的大气环流特征。结果表明:近40年, 20世纪60—70年代全球平均表面气温处于一个相对偏冷时期, 而80—90年代处于偏暖时期; 在这样的变暖背景下, 我国东部地区年总降水量呈现出“南涝北旱”异常特征, 与冷位相比较, 在暖位相阶段长江流域年总降水量明显增加, 而华北地区降水量减少, 其中长江流域降水的增加主要是由夏季降水增加引起的, 3月长江中下游降水增加也很重要, 北方的降水减少主要是由从盛夏到初秋的降水减少引起的。平均而言, 暖位相阶段我国南方强降水开始时间较早、结束较晚, 持续时间较长, 而北方强降水开始较晚, 持续时间较短。从春末到夏季, 冷位相时我国东部强降水带表现出从华南、经过长江流域向华北移动的特征, 而在暖位相时强降水主要集中在长江流域, 从华南向华北移动的特征不明显。雨带的这种异常变化与东亚大气环流有关, 在暖位相时夏季东亚大陆低压比冷位相时弱, 而鄂霍次克海高压偏强, 西太平洋副热带高压位置偏南, 使夏季东亚副热带地区的西南风减弱, 梅雨锋加强, 导致雨带滞留在长江流域, 使长江流域降水增加、北方降水减少。 相似文献
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利用湘西州8个气象台站1960—2013年逐日气温和降水资料计算的夏季干旱指数CI和NCEP/NCAR再分析资料、NOAA海温等分析了该区域夏季干旱的年际变化及可能成因。结果表明,1960—2013年期间,湘西州夏季干旱严重的年份有1961、1972、1981、1994、2009、2013年。湘西州夏季干旱的发生既跟中高纬环流异常有关,又与低纬度到热带的环流相关。其中西太平洋经菲律宾到孟加拉湾附近降水异常对应的热力强迫可引起西太平洋副高南北位置的变化而导致湘西州干旱的发生。即当西太平洋经菲律宾到孟加拉湾附近降水偏多时,西太平洋副高易偏北,该地区多受高压控制,容易发生干旱。 相似文献
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Summary Reports of changes in the seasonal and annual rainfall in Nigeria suggests that a more detailed analyses of the geographic
extent of these changes and of their impact on agriculture could be of value. Variation in the growing season (April to September)
rainfall from stations across Nigeria was analysed over the 30-yr period, 1960–90. Regression analyses were used to examine
long-term trends. Principal component and cluster analyses were used to group stations with similar trends in standardised
seasonal rainfall. Mean accumulated standardised seasonal rainfall were used to examine short- and medium-term trends for
each of the groups identified. Significant (P ≤ 0.05) decreases in rainy season rainfall were found at 8 stations mostly in the Guinea and arid/semi-arid savannas of northern
Nigeria, whereas no station showed significant increases. Examination of the monthly (April through September) rainfall showed
that only three – Kano, Sokoto and Potiskum in the arid/semi-arid savanna – of the twenty-three stations used in the analysis
had declining rainfall trends for each of the months April to September and subsequently declining seasonal rainfall trends.
However, 12 to 15 stations had consistently declining rainfall trends in atleast some but not all the growing season months.
However, a similar pattern was not the case in terms of increasing rainfall trends, where only one to three stations had consistently
increasing rainfall trends in some but not all of the months from April to September. Stations that showed increasing rainfall
trends were in the southern parts of Nigeria.
Six groups with similar patterns in standardised seasonal rainfall were identified by Principal Component and Cluster analyses.
For most of the groups, the period from 1967 to 1973 was that of consistently below average seasonal rainfall. However, the
timing and extent of the decline varied with location. Common to stations in four of the six groups was a negative trend in
seasonal rainfall for the period considered. The geographic variation in seasonal rainfall trends has tremendous agricultural
significance since there are indications that the reliability of the season is decreasing from the humid forest zone with
positive seasonal trends to the arid/semi-arid savanna with significant negative seasonal trends.
Received June 24, 1998 Revised December 18, 1998 相似文献
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The primary focus of this study is the analysis of droughts in the Tons River Basin during the period 1969–2008. Precipitation data observed at four gauging stations are used to identify drought over the study area. The event of drought is derived from the standardized precipitation index (SPI) on a 3-month scale. Our results indicated that severe drought occurred in the Allahabad, Rewa, and Satna stations in the years 1973 and 1979. The droughts in this region had occurred mainly due to erratic behavior in monsoons, especially due to long breaks between monsoons. During the drought years, the deficiency of the annual rainfall in the analysis of annual rainfall departure had varied from ?26% in 1976 to ?60% in 1973 at Allahabad station in the basin. The maximum deficiency of annual and seasonal rainfall recorded in the basin is 60%. The maximum seasonal rainfall departure observed in the basin is in the order of ?60% at Allahabad station in 1973, while maximum annual rainfall departure had been recorded as ?60% during 1979 at the Satna station. Extreme dry events (z score <?2) were detected during July, August, and September. Moreover, severe dry events were observed in August, September, and October. The drought conditions in the Tons River Basin are dominantly driven by total rainfall throughout the period between June and November. 相似文献
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水分盈亏指数及其在农业干旱监测中的应用 总被引：8，自引：2，他引：6
从广西农业生产特点和农业干旱监测业务实际需要出发,建立了综合考虑降雨量和同期作物需水量的基于作物水分盈亏原理的农业干旱监测模型,农业干旱监测等级指标,并用该指标分析了1961～2004年广西双季稻、甘蔗生育期间农业干旱的时空分布特征,用自治区农业厅同期旱情资料对2004年广西春旱发生情况进行监测验证.结果表明:水分盈亏指数模型能很好地反映旱情,是一种实时的干旱监测方法,能运用于广西农业干旱监测业务,在每季干旱发生频率的时空分布特征分析上得到的结果也与实际情况相符合. 相似文献
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华南4—5月持续性干旱及其环流背景 总被引：5，自引：1，他引：4
用测站降水量资料和NCEP-DOEⅡ再分析资料等,统计分析了华南春季各月降水量逐年变化的相互关系以及华南4—5月持续性干旱对应的大气环流异常特征,初步探讨了与华南4—5月持续性干旱有关的海温异常及其可能的影响机理。华南春季降水量主要变异型为全区一致型,近30年来华南春季降水量在减少,华南4、5月降水量的逐年变化有显著的同相特征。华南春旱主要是由4—5月的降水持续偏少造成的。在华南4—5月持续干旱年,华南附近高低空都存在一个异常的反气旋,并在华南上空造成异常下沉运动;东亚大槽南支偏弱,不利于中高纬度冷空气南下,因而不利于华南降水。在华南4—5月持续干旱年,热带中太平洋的海温正距平可从前一年12月一直持续到当年5月,其影响华南春旱的机制是:由于赤道中太平洋地区海温正距平,导致该区域的异常辐合上升运动,同时通过罗斯贝波的响应在其西侧即西太平洋赤道南、北两侧低空强迫形成气旋性环流异常,在菲律宾东侧的热带西太平洋上空强迫出异常的上升运动,进而使南海北部和华南地区出现异常的下沉运动,导致干旱;在南海及热带西太平洋上空大气低层出现的偏北风异常也使得来源于南海—西太平洋的水汽输送减弱,不利于华南降水。在华南4—5月持续干旱年,4、5月欧亚大陆中高纬度地区也存在一个持续性的西北—东南向的异常环流波列,其对华南干旱的发生也具有显著的影响作用。 相似文献
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基于台站资料和三套格点化降水资料,分析了21世纪初澜沧江流域夏季降水的年代际变化特征,并着重研究了其在不同月份的特点以及可能带来的旱涝风险。分析结果发现:澜沧江流域夏季降水发生了显著的年代际变化,在2002年前后,澜沧江流域夏季降水量经历了由多到少的年代际突变,且该突变主要发生在流域的中、下游。同时,在夏季的不同月份,降水的年代际变化也具有不同的特点,主要表现为:初夏(6月)降水量明显减少,而盛夏(7月)降水略有增加,且7月降水呈现集中的趋势。夏季降水量在时间分布上的变化使得澜沧江流域中、下游湿季明显缩短,进而对流域旱涝灾害产生显著的影响,主要表现为:使流域6月干旱频率增加,初夏干旱风险加大,7月极端强降水的发生频率增加,盛夏洪涝风险加大。进一步对突变前、后的水平环流场进行对比分析发现:2002年以后,澜沧江流域6月对流层低层有偏北风异常,不利于西南季风的向北推进,对流层高层有辐合异常,不利于降水的发生。在孟加拉湾地区对流层低层有明显的偏东北风异常,高层有偏西风异常,表明孟加拉湾季风偏弱,不利于印度洋和孟加拉湾向流域的水汽输送,不利于降水的形成。在这样的高、低层异常环流系统的配合下,2002年以后6月降水量显著减少。 相似文献
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Drought analysis in Jordan under current and future climates 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
Mohammed I. Al-Qinna Nezar A. Hammouri Mutewekil M. Obeidat Fayez Y. Ahmad 《Climatic change》2011,106(3):421-440
Droughts have adverse socioeconomic, agricultural, and environmental impacts that can be reduced by assessing and forecasting
drought behavior. The paper presents detailed analyses of both meteorological and vegetative droughts over the period from
1970 to 2005. Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) have been used to quantify
drought according to severity, magnitude and spatial distribution at the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Results suggest that
the country faced during the past 35 years frequent non-uniform drought periods in an irregular repetitive manner. Drought
severity, magnitudes and life span increased with time from normal to extreme levels especially at last decade reaching magnitudes
of more than 4. Generated NDVI maps spatial analyses estimate crop-area percentage damage due to severe and extremely severe
drought events occurred during October, December, and February of 2000 to be about 10%, 45%, and 30%, respectively. In response
to drought spatial extent, the paper suggest the presence of two drought types, local drought acting on one or more geographical
climatic parts and national drought, of less common but more severe, that extend over the whole country. Droughts in Jordan
act intensively during January, February and March and tend to shift position with time by alternative migrations from southern
desert parts to northern desert parts and from the eastern desert parts to highlands and Jordan Rift Valley (JRV) at the west.
The paper also investigates the potential use of Global Climate Model’s (GCM) to forecast future drought events from 2010
till 2040. Tukey HSD test indicates that ECHAM5OM GCM is capable to predicted rainfall variation at the country and suggests
future droughts to become more intensive at the northern and southern desserts with 15% rainfall reduction factor, followed
by 10% reduction at the JRV, and 5% at the highlands. 相似文献