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Surface Modelling of Annual Precipitation in China

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  • 1. State Key Laboratory of Resource and Environment Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China;
    2. Key Laboratory of Data Mining & Information Sharing of Ministry of Education, Spatial Information Research Center of Fujian Province, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350002, China

Received date: 2009-12-20

  Revised date: 2010-05-18

  Online published: 2010-07-10

Abstract

Based on the precipitation data from 781 sampling points (755 meteorological stations and 26 suppositional stations) in the study area, the formulae used to estimate the annual mean precipitation have been obtained, and the characteristics of the geographic or topographic effects have been presented. The impact factors included longitude, latitude, elevation, terrain aspect and unobstructed factor are significant factors explaining annual mean precipitation spatial variability in China. Detrending of annual precipitation distribution, the residual anomaly for local change was simulated by HASM algorithm. Setting suppositional meteorological stations over regions with no measured data, a new method enabled us to estimate precipitation in regions with sparse measured sites. The results show that the estimated annual precipitation correctly replicates real spatial distribution of precipitation qualitatively and quantitatively.

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LU Yi-min, YUE Tian-xiang, CHEN Chuan-fa, WANG Qing, WANG Qin-min . Surface Modelling of Annual Precipitation in China[J]. JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES, 2010 , 25(7) : 1194 -1205 . DOI: 10.11849/zrzyxb.2010.07.015

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