Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of
ORCID IDs
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9934-1822
Date of this Version
2-3-2019
Citation
Hindawi
Advances in Meteorology
Volume 2019, Article ID 1253932, 15 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/1253932
Abstract
Spatiotemporal changes in extreme precipitation at local scales in the context of climate warming are overwhelmingly important for prevention and mitigation of water-related disasters and also provide critical information for effective water resources management. In this study, the variability and trends of extreme precipitation in both time and space in the Poyang Lake basin over the period of 1960–2012 are analyzed. Also, changes in precipitation extremes with topography are investigated, and possible causes are briefly discussed. ,e results show that extreme precipitation over the Poyang Lake basin is intensified during the last 50 years, especially the increasing trends are more significant before the end of the 1990s. Moreover, high contribution rates of extreme precipitation to the total rainfall (40–60%) indicated that extreme precipitation plays an important role to the total water resources in this area.,e precipitation extremes also exhibited a significant spatial dependence in the basin. ,enortheastern and eastern areas are exposed to high risk of flood disaster with the higher frequency of extreme precipitation events. In addition, the distribution of precipitation extremes had a clear dependence on elevation, and the topography is an important factor affecting the variability of extreme precipitation over the Poyang Lake basin.
Comments
2019 Xianghu Li and Qi Hu