Thunder Events in China: 1980-2008

作     者：Zheng Lin-Lin Sun Jian-Hua Wei Jie 

作者机构：Institute of Atmospheric Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100029 China Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 China 

出 版 物：《Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters》 (大气和海洋科学快报(英文版))

年 卷 期：2010年第3卷第4期

页      面：181-188页

学科分类：07[理学] 

基　　金：supported by the China Meteorological Administration (Grant No. GYHY200906004) the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41075032) the Key Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. 2009BAC51B02) 

主　　题：thunder event climatology interdecadal variation seasonal variation 

摘      要：Using data collected at 517 weather stations in contiguous China over the period 1980-2008,characteristics of thunder events have been *** characteristics include geographical distribution,interdecadal variation,annual variation,and seasonal *** areas with the highest frequencies of thunder events are located in the central Tibetan Plateau,Yunnan,Guangxi,and *** annual number of thunder days increases from northern to southern *** the frequency of thunder events over mountains and plateaus is much higher than the frequency of events over plains in the same *** interdecadal variation of events shows that the frequency of thunder occurrences was highest during the 1980s,decreased during the 1990s,and increased slightly *** occurrences vary with the season,northward in May and retreating southward in September.