During recent decades, more frequent flood-drought alternations have been seen in China as a result of global climate change and intensive human activities, which have significant implications on water and food security. To better identify the characteristics of flood-drought alternations, we proposed a modified dry-wet abrupt alternation index (DWAAI) and applied the new method in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Basin (YRB-ML) to analyze the long-term spatio-temporal characteristics of dry-wet abrupt alternation (DWAA) events based on the daily precipitation observations at 75 rainfall stations in summer from 1960 to 2015. We found that the DWAA events have been spreading in the study area with higher frequency and intensity since 1960. In particular, the DWAA events mainly occurred in May and June in the northwest of the YRB-ML, including Hanjiang River Basin, the middle reaches of the YRB, north of Dongting Lake and northwest of Poyang Lake. In addition, we also analyzed the impact of El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on DWAA events in the YRB-ML. The results showed that around 41.04% of DWAA events occurred during the declining stages of La Niña or within the subsequent 8 months after La Niña, which implies that La Niña events could be predictive signals of DWAA events. Besides, significant negative correlations have been found between the modified DWAAI values of all the rainfall stations and the sea surface temperature anomalies in the Nino3.4 region within the 6 months prior to the DWAA events, particularly for the Poyang Lake watershed and the middle reaches of the YRB. This study has significant implications on the flood and drought control and water resources management in the YRB-ML under the challenge of future climate change. 相似文献
We present an uncertainty analysis of ecological process parameters and CO2 flux components (Reco, NEE and gross ecosystem exchange (GEE)) derived from 3 years’ continuous eddy covariance meas-urements of CO2 fluxes at subtropical evergreen coniferous plantation, Qianyanzhou of ChinaFlux. Daily-differencing approach was used to analyze the random error of CO2 fluxes measurements and bootstrapping method was used to quantify the uncertainties of three CO2 flux components. In addition, we evaluated different ... 相似文献
There are three common types of predictability problems
in weather and climate, which each involve different constrained nonlinear
optimization problems: the lower bound of maximum predictable time, the
upper bound of maximum prediction error, and the lower bound of maximum
allowable initial error and parameter error. Highly efficient algorithms
have been developed to solve the second optimization problem. And this
optimization problem can be used in realistic models for weather and climate
to study the upper bound of the maximum prediction error. Although a
filtering strategy has been adopted to solve the other two problems, direct
solutions are very time-consuming even for a very simple model, which
therefore limits the applicability of these two predictability problems in
realistic models. In this paper, a new strategy is designed to solve these
problems, involving the use of the existing highly efficient algorithms for
the second predictability problem in particular. Furthermore, a series of
comparisons between the older filtering strategy and the new method are
performed. It is demonstrated that the new strategy not only outputs the
same results as the old one, but is also more computationally efficient.
This would suggest that it is possible to study the predictability problems
associated with these two nonlinear optimization problems in realistic
forecast models of weather or climate. 相似文献