Characterization of the evolution of drought events in China based on 3D identification

Subjects: Geosciences >> Atmospheric Sciences submitted time 2023-08-25 Cooperative journals: 《干旱区研究》

吕潇雨 郭浩 孟翔晨 包安明 田芸菲 朱丽

Abstract： Globally, China is one of the country’s most frequently and severely affected by drought. Thesefrequent drought events have subsequently caused serious economic, social development, and ecologicalenvironment losses. Drought simultaneously leads to alterations in both space and time, and this paper aims toidentify drought events and quantify their spatial and temporal dynamic evolution using a three- dimensionalclustering algorithm for mainland China, from 1981-2020. The three- dimensional clustering algorithm can beused to effectively identify drought events and describe their dynamic processes. From 1981-2020 there were102 drought events lasting 2 months or more in mainland China. Spatially, the trajectory of drought events wasfound to show a tendency to develop from east to west. Temporally, there are high time overlaps betweendifferent drought events. In addition, drought events with wide coverage and high severity were concentrated inthe period from 2005-2010. The findings of this paper will help to elucidate the spatial and temporal evolutionpatterns of drought events and provide scientific references for drought monitoring and drought risk managementin mainland China.
 

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