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Characteristics and drivers of reference evapotranspiration in hilly regions in Southern China

Water (Switzerland), ISSN: 2073-4441, Vol: 11, Issue: 9
2019
  • 9
    Citations
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    Usage
  • 15
    Captures
  • 1
    Mentions
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  • Citations
    9
    • Citation Indexes
      9
  • Captures
    15
  • Mentions
    1
    • Blog Mentions
      1
      • Blog
        1

Article Description

This paper has adopted related meteorological data collected by 69 meteorological stations between 1951 and 2013 to analyze changes and drivers of reference evapotranspiration (ET) in the hilly regions located in southern China. Results show that: (1) ET in southern China's hilly regions reaches its maximum in summer and its minimum in winter, and that the annual ET shows an increasing trend. ET happened abrupt change due to the impact of abrupt meteorological variables changes, and the significant year of mutation were 1953, 1964 and 2008. Most abrupt changes of ET in meteorological stations occurred in the 1950s and 1960s. (2) The low value of ET was mainly captured in high-altitude areas. Spatially, the ET in the east was higher than that in the west. With the exception of a handful of stations, the trend coefficients of ET were all positive, exhibiting a gradual rise. Changes in ET in the east were much more sensitive than that in the west. Since ET was affected by the cyclical changes in relative humidity, short-period oscillations were observed in all these changes. (3) In general, the ET was negatively correlated with relative humidity, and positively correlated with temperature and sunshine percentage. ET is most sensitive to changes in average temperature, with a sensitivity coefficient of 1.136. ET showed positive sensitivity to average temperature and sunshine hours, which were notable in the northeastern, and uniform in the spatial. ET showed negatively sensitivity to relative humidity, and the absolute value of sensitivity coefficient in the northwestern is smaller. The highest contribution to ET is the average temperature (6.873%), and the total contribution of the four meteorological variables to the change of ET is 7.842%. The contribution of average temperature, relative humidity, and sunshine hours to ET is higher in the northern and eastern, northern, northern and eastern areas, respectively. Climate indexes (Western Pacific Index (WP), Southern Oscillation Index (SOI), Tropical Northern Atlantic Index (TNA), and El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)) were correlated with the ET. In addition, the ET and altitude, as well as the latitude and longitude were also correlated with each other.

Bibliographic Details

Youcun Liu; Yan Liu; Ming Chen; Yongtao Li; David Labat; Xiaohui Bian; Qianqian Ding

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Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Social Sciences; Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Environmental Science

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