Temporal-spatial variability of modern climate in the Altai Mountains during 1970-2015
Located in the intermediate zone between the taiga forests in Siberian Plain and the deserts in Central Asia, the Altai Mountains are of scientific concern about Holocene climate change in the past decades. However, researches about modern climate changes are relatively scarce in the Altai Mountains...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:7077806 2023-05-15T18:30:47+02:00 Temporal-spatial variability of modern climate in the Altai Mountains during 1970-2015 Li, Yinbo Zhang, Dongliang Andreeva, Mariia Li, Yaoming Fan, Lianlian Tang, Min 2020-03-17 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7077806/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32182258 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230196 en eng Public Library of Science http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7077806/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32182258 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230196 © 2020 Li et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. CC-BY Research Article Text 2020 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230196 2020-03-29T01:27:35Z Located in the intermediate zone between the taiga forests in Siberian Plain and the deserts in Central Asia, the Altai Mountains are of scientific concern about Holocene climate change in the past decades. However, researches about modern climate changes are relatively scarce in the Altai Mountains. In this study, temporal- spatial changes of air temperature and precipitation were investigated systematically in the Altai Mountains based on fifteen meteorological records over the period of 1970–2015. The Altai Mountains experienced a rapid warming trend with a rate of 0.41°C/decade and an insignificantly wetting trend at a rate of 4.82 mm/decade during 1970–2015. The magnitude of temperature trend was negatively correlated with elevation in cold season (spring and winter), whereas that was positively correlated with elevation in warm season (summer and autumn). The cyclonic anomalies to the northwest and an anticyclonic anomalies to the southeast blocked the southward cold air and then provided the favorable condition for an increasing precipitation via the southwesternly wind in the Altai Mountains. Text taiga PubMed Central (PMC) PLOS ONE 15 3 e0230196 |
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Located in the intermediate zone between the taiga forests in Siberian Plain and the deserts in Central Asia, the Altai Mountains are of scientific concern about Holocene climate change in the past decades. However, researches about modern climate changes are relatively scarce in the Altai Mountains. In this study, temporal- spatial changes of air temperature and precipitation were investigated systematically in the Altai Mountains based on fifteen meteorological records over the period of 1970–2015. The Altai Mountains experienced a rapid warming trend with a rate of 0.41°C/decade and an insignificantly wetting trend at a rate of 4.82 mm/decade during 1970–2015. The magnitude of temperature trend was negatively correlated with elevation in cold season (spring and winter), whereas that was positively correlated with elevation in warm season (summer and autumn). The cyclonic anomalies to the northwest and an anticyclonic anomalies to the southeast blocked the southward cold air and then provided the favorable condition for an increasing precipitation via the southwesternly wind in the Altai Mountains. |
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