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Article: Quantifying the intra-regional precipitation variability in northwestern China over the past 1,400 years
Title | Quantifying the intra-regional precipitation variability in northwestern China over the past 1,400 years |
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Issue Date | 2015 |
Publisher | Public Library of Science. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.plosone.org/home.action |
Citation | Plos One, 2015, v. 10 n. 7, article no. e0131693 How to Cite? |
Abstract | There has been a surge of paleo-climatic/environmental studies of Northwestern China (NW China), a region characterized by a diverse assortment of hydro-climatic systems. Their common approach, however, focuses on "deducing regional resemblance" rather than "exploring regional variance." To date, efforts to produce a quantitative assessment of long-term intra-regional precipitation variability (IRPV) in NW China has been inadequate. In the present study, we base on historical flood/drought records to compile a decadal IRPV index for NW China spanned AD580-1979 and to find its major determinants via wavelet analysis. Results show that our IRPV index captures the footprints of internal hydro-climatic disparity in NW China. In addition, we find distinct similar to 120-200 year periodicities in the IRPV index over the Little Ice Age, which are attributable to the change of hydro-climatic influence of ocean-atmospheric modes during the period. Also, we offer statistical evidence of El Nino Southern Oscillation (Indo-Pacific warm pool sea surface temperature and China-wide land surface temperature) as the prominent multi-decadal to centennial (centennial to multi-centennial) determinant of the IRPV in NW China. The present study contributes to the quantitative validation of the long-term IRPV in NW China and its driving forces, covering the periods with and without instrumental records. It may help to comprehend the complex hydro-climatic regimes in the region. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/214718 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.9 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.839 |
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dc.contributor.author | Lee, HF | - |
dc.contributor.author | Pei, Q | - |
dc.contributor.author | Zhang, DD | - |
dc.contributor.author | Choi, KPK | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-21T11:52:38Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-08-21T11:52:38Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Plos One, 2015, v. 10 n. 7, article no. e0131693 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1932-6203 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/214718 | - |
dc.description.abstract | There has been a surge of paleo-climatic/environmental studies of Northwestern China (NW China), a region characterized by a diverse assortment of hydro-climatic systems. Their common approach, however, focuses on "deducing regional resemblance" rather than "exploring regional variance." To date, efforts to produce a quantitative assessment of long-term intra-regional precipitation variability (IRPV) in NW China has been inadequate. In the present study, we base on historical flood/drought records to compile a decadal IRPV index for NW China spanned AD580-1979 and to find its major determinants via wavelet analysis. Results show that our IRPV index captures the footprints of internal hydro-climatic disparity in NW China. In addition, we find distinct similar to 120-200 year periodicities in the IRPV index over the Little Ice Age, which are attributable to the change of hydro-climatic influence of ocean-atmospheric modes during the period. Also, we offer statistical evidence of El Nino Southern Oscillation (Indo-Pacific warm pool sea surface temperature and China-wide land surface temperature) as the prominent multi-decadal to centennial (centennial to multi-centennial) determinant of the IRPV in NW China. The present study contributes to the quantitative validation of the long-term IRPV in NW China and its driving forces, covering the periods with and without instrumental records. It may help to comprehend the complex hydro-climatic regimes in the region. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Public Library of Science. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.plosone.org/home.action | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | PLoS ONE | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.title | Quantifying the intra-regional precipitation variability in northwestern China over the past 1,400 years | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Lee, HF: harrylee@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Pei, Q: peiqing@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Zhang, DD: zhangd@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Lee, HF=rp00646 | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Zhang, DD=rp00649 | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0131693 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 26154711 | - |
dc.identifier.pmcid | PMC4495927 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84941299475 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 250075 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 10 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 7 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000358159700077 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
dc.relation.project | The Causal Mechanism of Drought in Northwestern China over the Past Millennium | - |
dc.relation.project | Climate change, population growth, and population cycles in historical agrarian China: The influence of spatial scale and regional geographic context | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1932-6203 | - |