Spatial and Temporal Variation of Wind Erosion Climatic Erosivity and Its Response to ENSO in the Otindag Desert, China
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Database
2.3. Climatic Erosivity Calculation
2.4. Method of Linear Regression
2.5. Method of Spatial Interpolation
2.6. Correlation Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Annual Climatic Erosivity Analysis
3.2. Trend Analysis
3.3. Distribution of Climatic Erosivity Variation Trends
3.4. Climatic Erosivity Anomalies Associated with ENSO
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Periods of Time | ↑ | ↑* | ↑** | ↓ | ↓* | ↓** |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spring | 6 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 8 |
Summer | 5 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 5 | 10 |
Autumn | 6 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 8 |
Winter | 9 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 6 |
Annual | 6 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 8 |
No. | Warm and Cold Events | Time Span | Average Monthly Erosivity | No. | Warm and Cold Events | Time Span | Average Monthly Erosivity |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Warm | 1980.1–1980.7 | 23.6 | 12 | warm | 2005.2–2005.5 | 14.78 |
2 | Warm | 1982.6–1983.8 | 15.73 | 13 | cold | 2006.3–2006.4 | 21.67 |
3 | Cold | 1985.3–1985.5 | 21.47 | 14 | warm | 2006.7–2007.2 | 7.29 |
4 | Warm | 1986.8–1988.3 | 13.91 | 15 | cold | 2007.8–2008.5 | 10.02 |
5 | Cold | 1988.6–1989.8 | 11.64 | 16 | warm | 2009.7–2010.5 | 11.75 |
6 | Warm | 1991.5–1992.7 | 11.47 | 17 | cold | 2010.6–2011.4 | 10.98 |
7 | Warm | 1992.12–1993.12 | 11.92 | 18 | cold | 2011.8–2012.2 | 6.31 |
8 | Warm | 1994.6–1995.3 | 9.34 | 19 | warm | 2012.5–2012.7 | 12.19 |
9 | Warm | 1997.4–1998.6 | 11.92 | 20 | warm | 2014.5–2014.9 | 10.09 |
10 | Cold | 1998.9–2000.4 | 10.58 | 21 | warm | 2015.3–2016.6 | 12.96 |
11 | Warm | 2002.5–2003.3 | 7.1 | Average climatic erosivity El Niño/La Niña | 12.03 | ||
Average climatic erosivity El Niño | 12.41 | Average climatic erosivity La Niña | 11.16 | ||||
Neutral average climatic erosivity | 11.78 | Average climatic erosivity | 11.9 | ||||
Neutral average monthly climatic erosivity/average monthly climatic erosivity El Niño | 0.95 | ||||||
Neutral average monthly climatic erosivity/average monthly climatic erosivity La Niña | 1.06 |
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Lou, J.; Wang, X.; Cai, D. Spatial and Temporal Variation of Wind Erosion Climatic Erosivity and Its Response to ENSO in the Otindag Desert, China. Atmosphere 2019, 10, 614. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10100614
Lou J, Wang X, Cai D. Spatial and Temporal Variation of Wind Erosion Climatic Erosivity and Its Response to ENSO in the Otindag Desert, China. Atmosphere. 2019; 10(10):614. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10100614
Chicago/Turabian StyleLou, Junpeng, Xunming Wang, and Diwen Cai. 2019. "Spatial and Temporal Variation of Wind Erosion Climatic Erosivity and Its Response to ENSO in the Otindag Desert, China" Atmosphere 10, no. 10: 614. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10100614