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Recent changes of extreme dryness/wetness pattern and its possible impact on rice productivity in Jiangsu Province, southeast China
- Source :
- Natural Hazards. 84:1967-1979
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016.
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Abstract
- Based on the data of monthly precipitation and rice productivity at 61 meteorological stations in Jiangsu during 1966–2010, the possible impact of dryness/wetness variability on rice productivity was explored in this paper. Principal component analysis was applied to the climate-induced rice productivity index (CRPI) series and divided Jiangsu into six sub-regions—south, northwest, east, middle, southwest and northernmost. Mann–Kendall trend test for monthly Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) series in each sub-regions shows that most of Jiangsu was dominated by wetter tendency in August and drier tendency in September. CRPI had stronger negative correlation with monthly SPI series in the majority of sub-regions. Especially, the SPI in October, March, July and August had significantly negative linear relationship with CRPI in south Jiangsu, northwest Jiangsu, middle Jiangsu and southwest Jiangsu, respectively, which indicated the obvious unfavourable impact of extreme wetness episodes on rice productivity.
- Subjects :
- Atmospheric Science
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
0208 environmental biotechnology
02 engineering and technology
01 natural sciences
020801 environmental engineering
Trend analysis
Linear relationship
Geography
Productivity (ecology)
Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
medicine
Dryness
Physical geography
Precipitation
Negative correlation
medicine.symptom
Precipitation index
China
Cartography
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Water Science and Technology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15730840 and 0921030X
- Volume :
- 84
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Natural Hazards
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........cd26751fe333ddd4f566cd4896f58e5a