拉萨近半个世纪降水的变化特征

利用拉萨1952-2005年逐月降水量,≥0.1 mm、1.0 mm、5.0 mm和10.0 mm年降水日数,分析了近半个世纪拉萨年、季降水量及年降水日数的年际和年代际变化.结果发现:近半个世纪以来,拉萨年降水量表现为前30年呈不显著的减少趋势,减幅为17.8 mm/10 a;季降水量除夏季呈不显著的减少趋势外,其它各季均表现为增加趋势,以秋季增幅最大;≥0.1 mm、≥1.0 mm和≥5.0 mm年降水日数表现为不同程度的增加趋势.近25年≥10.0 mm的年降水日数呈极显著的增加趋势.20世纪50年代至80年代夏季降水量表现为逐年代减少趋势,秋季降水量则呈逐年代增加趋势,而冬季降水量为负距平.各等级年降水日数20世纪80年代偏少,90年代偏多.年降水量异常偏旱年主要出现在20世纪80年代,50年代和60年代的初期各出现一次异常偏涝年,70年代从未出现过异常年份.14年振荡周期可能是影响年降水量的主导周期.     

宁夏春季降水及其典型年份水汽通量特征分析

选用1961—2006年宁夏19个主要站降水量分析宁夏春季降水的气候特征,得出其存在16 a左右的长周期和8 a左右的短周期,但年际、年代际变化特征不明显。宁夏春季降水量与春季首场透雨出现日期存在显著的负相关关系,春季如果出现首场透雨,其降水量对整个春季降水量贡献很大。研究春季降水典型旱涝年850—700 hPa水汽通量场的分布,发现影响宁夏春季降水的水汽有两支,一支是来自于孟加拉湾洋面上向东北方向输送的水汽,一支是从里海沿我国新疆地区向东输送的水汽,典型涝年这两支水汽带汇合区域明显向北抬,且汇合区域大,中心值大;典型旱年这两支水汽带汇合区偏西、偏小,中心值也较平均年减小。典型旱涝年水汽通量在u方向差别不大,但在v方向上呈反位向分布,典型涝年宁夏为正距平控制,典型旱年为负距平控制。     

基于微波辐射计的宁夏六盘山西侧大气水汽变化特征

采用隆德气象站2 a德制微波辐射计与同期1 h降水量资料,利用统计法分析了六盘山脉西侧大气水汽含量以及云液态水含量的时间分布特征,并分析了92次不同降水性质、不同降水量级的降水个例,得到降水前跃增时间的变化特征。剔除降水背景结果统计表明:(1)六盘山西侧大气水汽含量和云液态水含量有明显的季节变化,其中夏季是大气水汽含量最多的季节,平均为23.44mm,占年均水汽含量的47.7%。(2)大气水汽含量和云液态水含量日变化呈一谷一峰分布,春、夏、秋三季均在午后出现最大峰值,冬季在11:00出现峰值;大气水汽含量低值区春、夏、秋季出现在日出前后,冬季出现在22:00。(3)87.0%的降水个例在降水发生之前大气水汽含量都在12.00 mm以上,且其值随着降水的量级增大而增大。(4)降水前云液态水含量发生明显跃增现象,春、夏季表现强,根据降水性质及降水量级不同,降水前跃增时间也不同。研究结论对把握人影作业时机具有一定的参考价值。     

塔克拉玛干沙漠腹地降水特征

利用塔克拉玛干沙漠腹地塔中气象站与周边3个气象站2000—2014年的气象观测资料,分析沙漠腹地近15 a降水量的年、季、月分布及变化特征,并与同期沙漠周边地区资料进行对比分析。结果表明：塔克拉玛干沙漠腹地近15 a年平均降水量为26.0 mm,比周边同期平均少37.3%,但降水稳定性高于周边各站;塔克拉玛干沙漠腹地降水的年、季、月分布与沙漠周边各站基本保持一致,夏季降水占总降水量的69.3%,且逐年有所增加,对全年降水量的变化贡献最大;沙漠腹地月降水量分布极不均匀,6月降水量最大,占全年降水的41.6%,2月和3月降水量最少,仅占全年的0.7%,降水最多月是最少月近60倍;水汽压在沙漠腹地相对不稳定,但相对湿度相对较稳定;沙漠腹地最长连续降水日年平均2.9 d,最长无降水日数年平均96 d,最长连续无降水日数呈逐年上升趋势。     

1796—2015年成都雨季降水量序列重建与特征分析

利用清代雨雪分寸记录和现代器测资料,重建了成都1796—2015年分辨率为年的雨季降水量序列。结果表明,过去220 a间成都的平均雨季降水量为838 mm,19世纪20~40年代、80年代到20世纪10年代、20世纪30~40年代降水偏多,19世纪初到20年代、50~70年代、20世纪20年代、50年代到21世纪初降水偏少,并在1879—1880年发生了由少到多的明显突变;降水最多的10 a为1832年、1896年、1898年、1899年、1903年、1907年、1915年、1921年、1937年和1947年,最少的10 a为1814年、1838年、1865年、1868年、1869年、1872年、1930年、1939年、1970年和2002年。成都雨季降水量存在显著的50~75 a周期,和太平洋年代际振荡（Pacific Decadal Oscillation, PDO)指数在50~70 a信号上存在较强的负相关,且与上一年冬季至当年秋季北印度洋的全球海表温度（SST）及当年夏秋季赤道太平洋的SST也存在较强的负相关,SST偏暖（冷）时,雨季降水量往往偏少（多）。     

福建省降水变化及其对ENSO的响应特征

基于福建省17个国家气象观测基准站1980—2019年的逐日降水数据和ENSO指数,分析了福建省1980—2019年期间的降水变化的时空格局及其对ENSO的响应特征。结果表明：1)1980—2019年期间,福建省年降水量呈不显著的增加趋势(2.78 mm·a^-1,P>0.05),夏季降水量的增幅最大,达5.75 mm·a^-1(P<0.05),此外,夏季的多年平均降水量为615.31 mm,占年降水量的37%;2)福建省年降水量与ENSO指数的相关程度呈现“西强东弱”的格局;1990s中后期以来年降水量受ENSO事件的影响较明显,降水对ENSO指数的响应存在一定的滞后;3)夏、冬季降水与ENSO为正相关,均与强ENSO暖事件有密切联系。研究结果深化了对福建省降水变化特征的认识,为科学应对福建省洪旱灾害提供了理论依据。     

黑河流域日降水格局及其时间变化

利用10个气象站1950—2000年日降水资料,对黑河流域的降水及其时空格局进行了研究。结果表明:①降水事件以≤5 mm的降水为主,占全年降水事件的82%,0～10 d间隔期占全年无降水期的40.7％,＞10 d间隔期占59.3％;②年降水日数与降水量之间存在显著的正相关性(r=0.78,P<0.01),＞10 mm降水总量与年降水量呈显著正相关,而≤5 mm降水总量与年降水量的相关性差;③＞10 mm和≤5 mm的降水总量变化范围分别为:0～262.6 mm,20.3～172.7 mm ,变异系数分别为0.25～0.92,0.17～0.25;④近50 d来,黑河流域近50 d降水量的变化总体上呈平稳上升趋势,≤5 mm的降水日呈现小幅下降的趋势,≥10 mm的降水日呈小幅上升的趋势。0～10 d的降水间隔期出现的频率总体保持不变,＞10 d间隔期出现的频率出现明显的下降趋势,年内总降水日数保持不变。     

1960-2010年中国降水区域分异及年代际变化特征

利用1960-2010年中国1840个台站年降水量数据,采用经验正交函数(EOF)和旋转经验正交函数分解方法(REOF)对降水进行分区,并对各区降水的变化特征进行了研究.结果表明:基于多站点资料结合REOF方法实现的降水分区与中国降水实际区域分异特征比较符合,并与中国气候区划相一致.中国各区降水变化特征分析表明,东部各区降水在20世纪70年代末、80年代末-90年代初和21世纪初发生雨带的南北移动过程,其中夏季雨带的移动主要受东亚夏季风和大气环流年代际变化的影响.西北地区降水以1985/1986年为突变年,西北西部地区降水由前期偏少转为偏多,主要与来自阿拉伯海和里海异常偏多的水汽输送有关;西北东部地区降水由前期偏多转为偏少,主要与季风的年代际减弱有关.东北地区降水在80年代初由前期接近正常转为偏多,90年代末降水由前期偏多转为偏少,主要与季风和西北太平洋水汽输送的年代际变化相关.西南部各区降水阶段性变化明显,2000年以前西南东北部地区降水与西部地区基本呈反向变化,主要受青藏高原地形、东亚季风和副热带高压等因素的影响,降水阶段性变化明显、成因复杂.     

乌鲁木齐地区近50a降水特征分析

根据乌鲁木齐地区分布在不同垂直高度上的4个气象站近50 a的实测降水资料,运用回归分析、趋势分析、Mann-Kendall检验、小波周期分析及变异分析等方法,分析了乌鲁木齐地区近50 a来降水变化特征。结果表明:(1)乌鲁木齐地区降水量时空分布极不均匀,空间分布上中山带的年平均降水量最大,为551.4 mm,其次是高山带,为458.4 mm,乌鲁木齐市区263.2 mm,达坂城最小,仅为71.8 mm;从时间分布来看,表现为较明显的季节分布差异,各地降水量主要集中在夏季,春季大于秋季,冬季最少。(2)近50 a来乌鲁木齐各地区的降水都呈明显增加的趋势,其中山前平原乌鲁木齐市区增加的幅度最大,降水趋势倾向率为26.02 mm/10 a,其次是高山带,倾向率为21.84 mm/10 a,中山带和达坂城倾向率分别为10.23 mm/10 a和8.55 mm/10 a。各地在年代际变化趋势上变现的不完全一致。(3)降水突变的时间各地不完全相同,山前平原区乌鲁木齐气象站降水发生突变时间出现在1982年,达坂城出现在1991年,高山带出现在1994年,而中山带没有明显的突变。(4)乌鲁木齐地区各地的降水量均存在准6 a的周期,6 a的周期可能是影响乌鲁木齐地区降水量的主导周期;山前平原区达坂城和乌鲁木齐降水波动较大,中山带和高山带表现相对稳定。     

西北地区东部可利用降水的时空变化特征

 利用西北地区东部91站1961-2009年间的实测气温降水资料,分别计算了该区水分资源各分量降水、蒸发及可利用降水,使用REOF等统计方法,整体分析了该区可利用降水的时空变化特征。结果表明：西北地区东部水分资源匮乏且年际变化大,水分资源各分量时空分布极不均匀;总体上各分量从该区东南部向西北部递减,呈南多北少特征,其中该区东南侧的陕南、陇南、六盘山区及青藏高原东部部分地区年降水量、蒸发量和可利用降水量分别在500、200和200 mm以上,年降水可利用率在30%~50%,可利用降水标准差达80~110 mm,而该区西部的河西走廊和青海西部的年降水量不足50 mm、年可利用降水量不到10 mm,年降水可利用率不足10%,可利用降水标准差在20 mm以下;各分量夏季最大,冬季最小,5~9月是该区主要降水和可利用降水的集中期;降水在水资源各分量中起决定性作用,因此降水的小幅变化导致可利用降水的大幅变化是降水稀少的西北地区东部可利用降水资源匮乏的主要原因,但气温变化造成的影响也不可忽视;西北地区东部5~9月可利用降水异常分布的局域特征明显,常出现陇南、河东、高原、河西走廊等4种异常分布特征。近50 a来,区内可利用降水总体呈东部减少(六盘山区及陇南区尤甚),西部增加的变化格局。     

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Assessment of GIAHS in Shizuoka: The Traditional Tea-grass Integrated System

<正>1 Introduction In 2013,Chagusaba,which is traditional tea-grass integrated system in Shizuoka,were accepted as new world heritage site of agriculture.Shizuoka prefecture occupies a variety of elevations,from 0 to 3000m or more above sea level.Because of the diversity of land features and climates,this area produces 167 agricultural commodities.In addition,a lot of traditional agriculture and over200 local native varieties of crops have been conserved in Shizuoka     

ERAHS: A New Platform for the Exchange of Regional Information and Experience on Agricultural Heritage Systems

<正>There are more than 10000 years of agricultural development history in the world that has provided very fruitful and ingenious traditional knowledge and experiences reflecting the evolution of humanity and the nature.In2002,the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations(FAO)initiated an international partnership initiative of"Conservation and Adaptive Management of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems     

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Book Reviewed in this article: Geography and the Third World. International Seminar, 14–18 May 1980, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia . Ishmail Ahmad and Jamaluddin Md Jahi, eds. The Growth Dilemma: Residents' Views and Local Population Change in the United States . Mark Baldassare. Sport and Place: A Geography of Sport in England, Scotland & Wales . John Bale. The Deindustrialization of America: Plant Closings, Community Abandonment, and the Dismantling of Basic Industry . Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison. Selected Essays 1963–1975: Carl O. Sauer . Bob Callahen, ed. Housing and Planning in the Countryside . G. Clark. Conflict, Politics and the Urban Scene . Kevin R. Cox and R. J. Johnston, eds. Thematic Maps: Their Design and Production . David J. Cuff and Mark T. Mattson. Wine: A Geographic Appreciation . Harm Jan de Blij. USSR in Maps . J. C. Dewdney. Political Geography: A Contemporary Perspective . Ramesh D. Dikshit. Rethinking Human Adaptation . Rada Dyson-Hudson and Michael A. Little, eds. Sacred Sands: The Struggle for Community in the indiana Dunes . J. Ronald Engel. Geography of the Biosphere . A. Furley and Walter W. Newey. Disaster and Reconstruction . Robert Geipel. Glasgow: The Making of a City . Andrew Gibb. Design for Arid Regions . Giden S. Golany, ed. Urbanization and Cancer Mortality: The United States Experience, 1950–1975 . Michael R. Greenberg. Geology in the Nineteenth Century: Changing Views of a Changing World . Mott T. Greene. Colonización y Destrucción de Bosques en Panamá . Stanley Heckadon Moreno and Alberto McKay, eds. Urban Geography: A First Approach . David T. Herbert and Colin J. Thomas. The Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes . Tadahiko Higuchi. Climate from Tree Rings . M. K. Hughes, P. M. Kelly, J. R. Pilcher, and V. C. LaMarche, Jr., eds. The structure of Nineteenth Century Cities . James H. Johnson and Colin G. Pooley, eds. The American Planner: Biographies and Recollections . Donald A. Krueckeberg, ed. Urban Land Policy For the 1980s, the Message for State and Local Government . George Lefcoe, ed. Regional Planning: Evolution, Crisis and Prospects . Gill C. Lim, ed. Relevance and Ethics In Geography . Bruce Mitchell and Dianne Draper. China: The Geography of Development and Modernization . Clifton W. Pannell and Laurence J. C. MA. The Urban Retailing System . Robert B. Potter. Hants. Nonconventional Energy Resources . Philip R. Pryde. Caribbean Migrants: Environment and Human Survival on St. Kitts and Nevis . Bonham C. Richardson. Population and Resources . Harry Robinson. East Los Angeles: History of A Barrio . Ricardo Romo. Integrated Impact Assessment . Frederick A. Rossini and Alan L. Porter, eds. Environmental Aesthetics: Essays in Interpretation . Barry Sadler and Allen Carlson, eds. Earthwatch . Charles Sheffield. Field Techniques and Research Methods in Geography . Robert H. Stoddard. Haiti: Land of Poverty . Robert J. Tata. Weathering and Erosion: Sources and Methods in Geography . Stephen T. Trudgill. Once Beneath the Forest. Prehistoric Terracing in the Río Bec Region of the Maya Lowlands . B. L. Turner, II. The Historical Geography of Scotland since 1707 . David Turnock.     

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Book Reviewed in this article: The City in Cultural Context . John Agnew, John Mercer, David Sopher, eds. Soils and Geomorphology Peter W. Birkeland. Urbanization and Settlement Systems, International Perspectives . L. S. Bourne, R. Sinclair, and K. Dziewoński. eds. An Introduction to Urban Historical Geography . Harold Carter. Overshoot, The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change . William J. Catton, Jr. Rivers of the World . Eberhard Czaya. Jewish Communities in Frontier Societies: Argentina, Australia and South Africa . Daniel J. Elazar with Peter Medding. Color in Public Spaces: Toward a Communication-Based Theory of the Urban Built Environment. Kenneth E. Foote. Spatial Statistics and Models. Gary L. Gaile and Cort J. Willmott, eds. Mega-Geomorphology. Rita Gardner and Helen Scoging, eds. Technological Change and Regional Development. Gillespie, ed. The Arid Lands: Their Use and Abuse. R. L. Heathcote. The Location of Industry in Britain. A. G. Hoare. Groundwater as a Geomorphic Agent . R. G. LaFleur, ed. Rural Public Services: International Comparisons. Richard E. Lonsdale and Gyorgy Enyedi, eds. Saving Water in a Desert City. William E. Martin, Helen M. Ingram, Nancy K. Laney, and Adrian H. Griffin. Water Resources: Distribution, Use and Management. John R. Mather. Transnationals and the Third World: The Struggle for Culture. Armand Mattelart. South Hadley, MA: USGS Digital Cartographic Data Standards. R. B. McEwen, R. E. Witmer, and B. S. Ramey, eds. The Ecosystem Concept in Anthropology. Emilio F. Moran, ed. Boulder, CO: Women, Men, and the International Division of Labor. June Nash and Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, eds. Nuclear Power: Assessing and Managing Hazardous Technology. Martin J. Pasqualetti and K. David Pijawka, eds. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science 1815-1840. Elizabeth Chalmers Patterson. An Introduction to Coastal Geomorphology. John Pethick. Late Quaternary Environments of the United States , Vol. 1, The Late Pleistocene. Stephen C. Porter, ed. Planning and Ecology. R. D. Roberts and T. M. Roberts, eds. Regionalism and the Pacific Northwest. William G. Robbins, Robert J. Frank, and Richard E. Ross, eds. Environment and Health. Anthony J. Rowland and Paul Cooper. Sunbelt/Snowbelt: Urban Development and Regional Restructuring. Larry Sawers and William K. Tabb, eds. The Bad Earth. Environmental Degradation in China. Vaclav Smil. Armonk, NY: Voyage into Substance: Art, Science, Nature, and the Illustrated Travel Account, 1760–1840. Barbara Maria Stafford. The Institute of British Geographers: The First Fifty Years. Robert W. Steel. Visions of the Past. Christopher Taylor and Richard Muir. Glacial Lake Agassiz. J. T. Teller and Lee Clayton, eds. The Tule Breakers: The Story of the California Dredge. John Thompson and Edward A. Dutra. The Balkan City 1400–1900. Nikolai Todorov. Explanation, Prediction and Planning: the Lowry model. Michael J. Webber. Mercedes Reales: Hispanic Land Grants of the Upper Rio Grande Region. Victor Westphall. The World Atlas of Revolutions. Andrew J. M. Wheatcroft. The West European City, A Social Geography. Paul White. Urban Elites and Mass Transportation. J. Allen Whitt. Princeton, NJ: Urban Life In Contemporary China. Martin King Whyte and William L. Parish. The Demand for Energy in the Soviet Union. David Wilson. London and Canberra: Rethinking Geographical Inquiry. J. David Wood, ed.     

PRODUCTIVITY OF AMERICAN PH.D.-GRANTING DEPARTMENTS OF GEOGRAPHY

Reviews of geographic software in this article:

DEMO-GRAPHICS: WORLD POPULATIONS AND PROJECTIONS.

ESP

GAUSS.

CEMODEL S. Damus

LIMDEP. William H. Greene

MICROSTAT 4.1

OTIS

PCIPS. (Personal Computer Image Processing System). H.J. Meyers and R. Bernstein.

REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF TIME SERIES (RATS)

SPSS/PC+

URBAN DATA MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE (UDMS)     

Journal of Resources and Ecology Total Contents of Volume 5, 2014

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BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: Rabat: Urban Apartheid in Morocco . Janet Abu -Lughod . Marketplaces in a Developing Country: The Case of Western Nigeria . Isaac Ayinde Adalemo . Farming Development and Space: A World Agricultural Geography . Bernd Andreae . Section and Party: A Political Geography of American Presidential Elections, from Andrew Jackson to Ronald Reagan . J. Clark Archer and Peter J. Taylor . Women and Space: Ground Rules and Social Maps . Shirley Ardener , ed. European Progress in Spatial Analysis . R. J. Bennett , ed. The Origins of Academic Geography in the United States . Brian W. Blouet Geographic Perspectives on Global Problems . Ronald Reed Boyce . Seasonal Dimensions to Rural Poverty . Robert Chambers , Richard Longhurst and Arnold Pacey eds. The New Nationalism and the Use of Common Spaces: Issues in Marine Pollution and the Exploitation of Antarctica . Jonathan I. Charney , ed. Communications Tomorrow: The Coming of the Information Society . Edward Cornish , ed. The Design of Suburbia . Arthur Edwards . Explorer on the Northern Plains: Lieutenant Gouverneur K. Warren's Preliminary Report of Explorations in Nebraska and Dakota in the Years 1855–56–57. With an Introduction by Frank N. Schubert . The Changing Climate: Responses of the Natural Flora and Fauna . Michael J. Ford . Essentials of Physical Geography . Robert E. Gabler , Robert J. Sager , Sheila Brazier , and Daniel L. Wise. The Road to Jaramillo . William Glen . Valued Environments . John R. Gold and Jacquelin Burgess , eds. Proximity and Preference: Problems in the Multidimensional Analysis of Large Data Sets . Reginald G. Golledge and John N. Rayner , eds. A Search for Common Ground . Peter Gould and Gunnar Olsson , eds. Geography: Its History and Concepts . Arild Holt -Jensen . A Population Geography . Huw R. Jones . The Human Mosaic: A Thematic Introduction to Cultural Geography, 3rd ed. Terry G. Jordan and Lester Rowntree . Urban Social Geography: An Introduction . Paul Knox . The Anatomy of Job Loss: The How, Why and Where of Employment Decline . Doreen Massey and Richard Meegan . The Information Society as Post-Industial Society . Yoneji Masuda . Map Librarianship, 2nd ed. Harold Nichols . India: Cultural Patterns and Processes . Allen G. Noble and Ashok K. Dutt , eds. The God that Limps: Science and Technology in the Eighties . Colin Norman . Geography: An Introductory Perspective . Robert E. Norris , Keith D. Harries and John D. Vitek . The Politics of Technology Assessment . David M. O'Brien and Donald A. Marchand . Ethnic Segregation in Cities . Ceri Peach , Vaughan Robinson and Susan Smith , eds. Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980 . Bernard Quinn , Herman Anderson , Martin Bradley , Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver . Energy in Australia: Politics and Economics . Hugh Saddler . Development from Above or Below? The Dialectics of Regional Planning in Developing Countries . Walter B. Stóuhr and D. R. Fraser Taylor , eds. Human Impact on the Ecosystem . Joy Tivy and Greg O'Hare . Plants and People: Vegetation Change in North America . Thomas R. Vale . The Mapmakers: The Story of the Great Pioneers in Cartography from Antiquity to the Space Age . John Noble Wilford .