[1]XU Hui,GUAN Bei,XUE Yan,et al.Spatiotemporal Variations of Dry Spell in Inner Mongolia in Recent 53 Years[J].Research of Soil and Water Conservation,2015,22(03):304-308.
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Research of Soil and Water Conservation[ISSN 1005-3409/CN 61-1272/P] Volume:
22
Number of periods:
2015 03
Page number:
304-308
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Public date:
2015-06-28
- Title:
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Spatiotemporal Variations of Dry Spell in Inner Mongolia in Recent 53 Years
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XU Hui1, GUAN Bei1, XUE Yan2, HUANG Jin2
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1. Nanjing Research Institute of Environmental Protection, Nanjing 210013, China;
2. School of Environmental Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
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- Keywords:
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Inner Mongolia; dry spell; space and time changing characteristics; trend
- CLC:
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P462.3;P426.6
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- Abstract:
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Base on the daily precipitation data from 46 meteorological stations in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, north China, the space and time changing characteristics of dry spell were investigated during the period from 1960 to 2012 in this study. The three dry spell indices such as number of dry spell (NDS), mean length of dry spell (MDS), and maximum length of dry spell (MLDS) were calculated, and the linear trend estimation method and MK trend test method were used to analyze the changing characteristics of dry spell indices. The results indicated that the decline of mean MDS and MLDS along the east to west gradient for has been found. Mean NDS shows an opposite distribution compared with mean MDS and MLDS. It seems to indicate that drought in the western area is much severer than other area. On the annual scale, most stations display insignificant decrease trends for NDS and MLDS, most stations display insignificant increase trends for MLDS. On the monthly scale, the changes of dry spell in July and August in Inner Mongolia are obvious. In July and August, the NDS shows significant decrease trend, the MDS and MLDS show significant increase trends. This result means that the summer droughts become increasingly serious in Inner Mongolia.