Title: Characters of precipitations in recent 113 years in Xiamen areas
Abstract: The scarcity of observation data over Xiamen areas were reinforced using the data of Zhangzhou and Dongshan.Then the annual and seasonal precipitation trend,dryness and wetness phase,variation period,secular change of precipitation under climatic change,frequency of precipitation anomaly and catastrophic point of precipitation over Xiamen were analyzed from 1893 to 2005.It showed that:(1)The annual and summer precipitation of Xiamen had increased in recent 113a.(2)It was rainless in 1893~1902 and 1948~1971 while rainy in 1931~1947 and 1983~2005.(3)The annual precipitation had oscillation periods of 7~8a,60~65a and 17a.(4)The inter-annual change of annual and summer precipitation were acute in 1903~1931.(5)The climate variability of autumn precipitation was the highest among 4 seasons.(6)The precipitation anomaly events occurred frequently in 1951~1960,1901~1910 and 1990~2000.(7)The annual precipitation over 1971~1972 and 1982~1983,spring precipitation over 1942~1943 and 1972~1973,summer precipitation over 1987~1988 and autumn precipitation over 1972~1973 had catastrophe occurrences.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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