Assessing the Climate Tendency over the Yangtze River Delta, China: Properties, Dry/Wet Event Frequencies, and Causes

• Published in: Water
• Main Authors: Yanfei Wu, Yu Xu
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: standardized precipitation index (SPI); climate tendency; frequencies of wet/dry events; climate oscillations; Yangtze River Delta; Pacific; Soi; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/w12102734

In view of the important role to in revealing climate wet/dry tendency, Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) was applied to identify wetness/dryness trends and their relationship with large-scale climate oscillations in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) from 1957 to 2016. The daily precipitation in 43...