A study on environmental aridity over northern and southern to Qinling Mountains under climate warming

作     者：YAN Jun-ping~1, LIU Yan-sui~2 (1. College of Tourism and Environment, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710062, China 2. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China) 

作者机构：College of Tourism and Environment Shaanxi Normal University Xi’an China Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research CAS Beijing China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Geographical Sciences》 (地理学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2001年第11卷第2期

页      面：193-201页

核心收录：

学科分类：083001[工学-环境科学] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 07[理学] 070601[理学-气象学] 08[工学] 0706[理学-大气科学] 

基　　金：Knowledge Innovation Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences, KZCX2-310-05 National Natural Science Foundation of China, No.4007 

主　　题：climate change aridity Qinling Mountains 

摘      要：Based on the data up to 1999 from hydroclimatological departments, this pape analyzes the climatic divide implications of the Qinling Mountains in regional response to the process of climate warming, due to which the grades of dryness/wetness (GDW) in 100 years show that the northern region has entered a drought period, while the southern is a humid period. In a course of ten years, the D-value of annual average air temperature over southern Shaanxi (the Hanjiang Valley) and the Central Shaanxi Plain (the Guanzhong Plain) has narrowed, i.e., the former with a slight change and the latter with rapid increase in temperature. Both regions were arid with the decrease in precipition D-value, namely the plain became warmer while the south was drier. The Qinling Mountains play a pronounced role in the climatic divide. The runoff coefficient (RC) of the Weihe River decreases synchronously with that of the Hanjiang due to climate warming. The RC of Weihe dropped from 0.2 in the 1950s to less than 0.1 in the 1990s. The Weihe Valley (the Guanzhong Plain) is practically an arid area due to shortage of water. The successive 0.5, 1.0°C temperature anomaly over China marks, perhaps, the improtant transition period in which the environment becomes more vulnerable than before. The study shows the obvious trend of environmental aridity, which is of help to the understanding of regional response to global climate change.