Climate change over the yarlung zangbo river basin during 1961-2005
You Q. L. ; Kang S. C. ; Wu Y. H. ; Yan Y. P.
2007
关键词Yarlung Zangbo river basin climate change sensitivity tibetan plateau surface trends
英文摘要The Yarlung Zangbo River (YR) is the highest great river in the world, and its basin is one of the centers of human economic activity in Tibet. Using 10 meteorological stations over the YR basin in 1961-2005, the spatial and temporal characteristics of temperature and precipitation as well as potential evapotranspiration are analyzed. The results are as follows. (1) The annual and four seasonal mean air temperature shows statistically significant increasing trend, the tendency is more significant in winter and fall. The warming in Lhasa river basin is most significant. (2) The precipitation is decreasing from the 1960s to the 1980s and increasing since the 1980s. From 1961 to 2005, the annual and four seasonal mean precipitation is increasing but not statistically significant, especially in fall and spring. The increasing precipitation rates are more pronounced in Niyangqu and Palong Zangbo river basins, the closer to the upper YR is, the less precipitation increasing rate would be. (3) The annual and four seasonal mean potential evapotranspiration has decreased, especially after the 1980s, and most of it happens in winter and spring. The decreasing trend is most significant in the middle YR and Nianchu river basin. (4) Compared with the Mt. Qomolangma region, Tibetan Plateau, China and global average, the magnitudes of warming trend over the YR basin since the 1970s exceed those areas in the same period, and compared with the Tibetan Plateau, the magnitudes of precipitation increasing and potential evapotranspiration decreasing are larger, suggesting that the YR basin is one of the most sensitive areas to global warming.
出处Journal of Geographical Sciences
17
4
409-420
收录类别SCI
语种英语
ISSN号1009-637X
内容类型SCI/SSCI论文
源URL[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/22526]  
专题地理科学与资源研究所_历年回溯文献
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You Q. L.,Kang S. C.,Wu Y. H.,et al. Climate change over the yarlung zangbo river basin during 1961-2005. 2007.
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