scholarly journals Intra-annual differences of 3-month Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index dryness/wetness sensitivity over southwest China

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. e830 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanlei Sun ◽  
Yongjian Ren ◽  
Qingqing Li ◽  
Shujia Zhou ◽  
Changyu Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southwest China ◽  
Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

scholarly journals Spatiotemporal Differences in Dominants of Dryness/Wetness Changes in Southwest China

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Shujia Zhou ◽  
Shanlei Sun ◽  
Wanrong Shi ◽  
Jiazhi Wang ◽  
Jinjian Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index ◽  
Full Analysis

A full analysis of 3-month Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration index (SPEI-3) changes and attribution analyses are of significance for deeply understanding dryness/wetness evolutions and thus formulating specific measures to sustain regional development. In this study, we analyze monthly and annual SPEI-3 changes over Southwest China (SWC; including Sichuan (SC), Chongqing (CQ), Guizhou (GZ), Yunnan (YN), and west Guangxi (wGX)) during 1961–2012, using the SPEI model and routine meteorological measurements at 269 weather sites. For SWC and each subregion (excluding wGX), annual SPEI-3 during 1961–2012 tends to decrease, and drying is at most of months in January and September–December, but wetting is in February–August (excluding March for wGX). Additionally, more than 50% of sites show declined and increased SPEI-3 in January, April, June, and August–December and the remaining months, respectively. Except for wGX with dominant of ET0, annual SPEI-3 changes in SWC and other four subregions have dominant of precipitation. Spatially, annual SPEI-3 changes at 59% of sites are because of precipitation, generally located in southeast SC, south YN, CQ, GZ, and south and northeast wGX. Nevertheless, dominants at regional and site scales vary among months, e.g., SWC, SC, CQ, and GZ, having dominant of precipitation (ET0) during September–December (most of months during January–August), YN always with dominant of precipitation, and wGX with dominant of precipitation (ET0) in February–April and July–December (January, May, and June). Importantly, this study provides a reference for quantitatively evaluating spatiotemporal dryness/wetness variations with climate change, especially for regions with significant drying/wetting.

scholarly journals Monitoring the Reduced Resilience of Forests in Southwest China Using Long-Term Remote Sensing Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Hao Jiang ◽  
Lisheng Song ◽  
Yan Li ◽  
Mingguo Ma ◽  
Lei Fan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Availability ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Root Systems ◽  
Severe Drought ◽  
Spatial Distributions ◽  
Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index ◽  
Good Agreement

An increase in the frequency and severity of droughts associated with global warming has resulted in deleterious impacts on forest productivity in Southwest China. Despite attempts to explore the response of vegetation to drought, less is known about forest’s resilience in response to drought in Southwest China. Here, the reduced resilience of the forest was found based on remotely sensed optical and microwave vegetation products. The spatial distribution and temporal variation of resilience-reduced forest were assessed using the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) and vegetation optical depth (VOD). Our findings showed that 40–50% of the forest appeared to have abnormally low resilience approximately 6 months after the severe drought. The spatial distributions of abnormally low resilience had a good agreement with the regions affected by the 2009–2011 drought events. In particular, our results indicated that areas of afforestation were more susceptible to drought than natural forest, maybe due to the different water uptake strategy of the diverse root systems. Our findings highlight the vulnerability of afforestation areas to climate change, and recommend giving more attention to soil water availability.

Using species distribution modeling to improve conservation of medicinal plants in Southwest China

Planta Medica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 81 (S 01) ◽  
pp. S1-S381
Author(s):  
B Liu ◽  
F Li ◽  
Z Guo ◽  
L Hong ◽  
W Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Species Distribution ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Species Distribution Modeling ◽  
Distribution Modeling

Prince Henri d'Orleans (1867–1901): geographical and botanical exploration between inner Asia and southwest China

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-399
Author(s):  
WILLIAM GARDENER
Keyword(s):  
Southwest China ◽  
Western China ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Inner Asia ◽  
Botanical Exploration ◽  
Western Yunnan ◽  
Westerly Direction ◽  
Chinese Province ◽  
The Right ◽  
North Western

Prince Henri d'Orleans, precluded by French law from serving his country in the profession of arms, had his attention turned early towards exploration. In 1889, accompanied by the experienced traveller Gabriel Bonvalet, he set out from Paris to reach Indo-China overland by way of Central Asia, Tibet and western and south western China. The journey made contributions in the problems of the whereabouts of Lap Nor and the configuration of the then unexplored northern plateau of Tibet; and in botany it produced some species new to science. The party reached Indo-China in 1890. In 1895, having organised an expedition better equipped for topographical survey and for investigations in the fields of natural history and ethnography, Prince Henri set out from Hanoi with the intention of exploring the Mekong through the Chinese province of Yunnan. After proceeding up the left bank of the Salween for a brief part of its course and then alternating between the right and left banks of the Mekong as far up as Tzeku, the party found it advisable to enter Tibet in a north westerly direction through the province of Chamdo and instead crossed the south eastern extremity of the country, the Zayul, by a difficult track which led them to the country of the Hkamti Shans in present day Upper Burma, and thence to India completing a journey of 2000 miles, "1500 of which had been previously untrodden" (Prince Henri). West of the Mekong, the journey established that the Salween, which some geographers had claimed took its rise in or near north western Yunnan, in fact rose well north in Tibet, and that, contrary to previous opinions, the principal headwater of the Irrawaddy rose no further north than latitude 28°30'. Botanical collections were confined to Yunnan, where the tracks permitted mule transport, and they produced a number of species new to science and extended the range of distribution of species already known.

Frontier Tribes of Southwest China

1942 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 116-120
Author(s):  
Hsien-Chin Hu
Keyword(s):  
Southwest China

Heat production of sedimentary rocks in the Sichuan basin, Southwest China

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 401-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuanqing Zhu ◽  
Ming Xu ◽  
Nansheng Qiu ◽  
Shengbiao Hu
Keyword(s):  
Heat Production ◽  
Sichuan Basin ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Sedimentary Rocks ◽  
The Sichuan Basin
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