Theoretical and Applied Climatology - The sandy land in the southern region of the Tengger Desert is adjacent to cities and towns, and land desertification poses a threat to the livelihood and... 相似文献
Both of Typhoon Winnie (9711) and Matsa (0509) underwent an extratropical transition (ET)
process when they moved northward after landfall and affected Liaodong Peninsula. However, Matsa
produced half as much rainfall as Winnie, although it struck Liaodong Peninsula directly while Winnie
passed through the Bohai Sea. The relations between the ET processes and the precipitation over Liaodong
Peninsula are examined. The result shows that the precipitation difference between Winnie and Matsa was
closely related to the interactions between the westerly systems and typhoons during their ET processes.
Winnie was captured by the upper westerly trough and then coupled with it when moving to the
mid-latitudes, and the positive anomaly of moist potential vorticity (MPV) was transported downward from
the upper troposphere over the remnant circulation of the tropical cyclone (TC). It was favorable to the
interaction between tropical warm and wet air and westerly cold air, causing convective cloud clusters to
form and develop. The rain belt composed of several meso-β cloud clusters over the Liaodong Peninsula,
resulting in heavy rainfall. On the other hand, Matsa did not couple with any upper trough during its ET
process and the positive anomaly of MPV in the upper troposphere and its downward transfer were weak.
Only one meso-β cloud cluster occurred in Matsa’s rain belt during its ET process that tended to lessen
rainfall over Liaodong Peninsula. 相似文献
Situated in a climatically stressful environment, alpine grassland is sensitive to subtle climate changes in its productivity. We remedy the current deficiency in studying grassland productivity by taking the integrated effect of all relevant factors into consideration. The relative importance of temperature, rainfall and evaporation to the alpine grassland productivity in western China was determined through analysis of their relationship with the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) between 1981 and 2000. Climate warming stimulated grassland productivity in the 1980s, but hampered it in the 1990s. Temperature is more important than rainfall to grassland productivity early in the growing season. However, their relative importance is reversed late in the growing season. Monthly summer month rainfall modified by maximum monthly temperature is a good predictor of alpine grassland productivity at 62.0 per cent. However, the best predictor is water deficiency, which is able to improve the estimation accuracy to 78.3 per cent. Hence, the impact of temperature on grassland productivity is better studied indirectly through evaporation. 相似文献
Journal of Geographical Sciences - Understanding biogeographic patterns and the mechanisms underlying them has been a main issue in macroecology and biogeography, and has implications for... 相似文献
Journal of Geographical Sciences - Mountains in western China, hosted rich biodiversity and millions of people and inhabitant with vital ecosystem services, had experienced the most serious... 相似文献