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Possible Causes for Spatial and Temporal Variation of Warm Season Precipitation in Xinjiang from 1960–2014
- Source :
- Atmosphere; Volume 8; Issue 1; Pages: 20, Atmosphere, Vol 8, Iss 1, p 20 (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2017.
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Abstract
- In this work, rain totals from 1960–2014, obtained during the warm season (May to October) from 52 meteorological stations, over Xinjiang, China were classified as either light, moderate, or heavy rain in two sub-regions (northern and southern). Spatial and temporal trends for rain amounts and days for the three rain classes were determined. All light, moderate, and heavy rain amounts displayed increasing trends over the two sub-regions. Furthermore, heavy rain amounts contributed the most to changes in total rain amounts. Light rain days in northern Xinjiang significantly decreased, in contrast to increasing light rain days in southern Xinjiang and moderate and heavy rain days within two sub-regions. Results obtained from correlation and relative weights analyses implied that lower-tropospheric specific humidity was the main factor responsible for light rain day trends in Xinjiang. Increasing temperatures were not found to have a significant effect.
- Subjects :
- Atmospheric Science
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
temperature
Humidity
rain amounts
lcsh:QC851-999
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
010502 geochemistry & geophysics
Atmospheric sciences
Warm season
01 natural sciences
Light rain
rain days
specific humidity
light rain
Climatology
parasitic diseases
Environmental science
lcsh:Meteorology. Climatology
Precipitation
geographic locations
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20734433
- Volume :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Atmosphere
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6138c161b7b3658c8b85b03bd39b2e8c