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DOI	10.1007/s12665-021-09557-y
	Quantitative characterization of climate change and its impact on aeolian desertification: a case study in northwest Shanxi of China
	Xue, Zhanjin; Qin, Zuodong; Cheng, Fangqin; Ding, Guangwei; Yan, Junxia
通讯作者	Xue, ZJ (corresponding author), Northern State Univ, Dept Chem, Aberdeen, SD 57401 USA.
来源期刊	ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH SCIENCES
ISSN	1866-6280
EISSN	1866-6299
出版年	2021
卷号	80 期号:7
英文摘要	Aeolian desertification, a serious degradation of soil and vegetation, is one of the most important issues in arid and semi-arid regions in terms of society/economy and environment. However, there still remains problematic on the study of climate change and its impact on aeolian desertification in the such region. To reverse aeolian desertified land (ADL), it is necessary to identify the causes of ADL. The paper uses meteorological data to characterize climate change and its impact on ADL during 1970-2015 with the method of geostatistics, and the results showed that the climate tended to be warmer and drier. The linear trend rates of annual mean temperature for the whole year (WY), winter half year (WHY), and summer half year (SHY) were 0.24 degrees C (10 a)(-1), 0.25 degrees C (10 a)(-1), and 0.18 degrees C (10 a)(-1), respectively. The linear trend rates of average precipitation were - 8.29 mm (10 a)(-1), 2.69 mm (10 a)(-1), and - 8.27 mm (10 a)(-1), respectively. Rising temperatures in WY, WHY, and SHY lead to increase topsoil evaporation and may trigger ADL development. However, the decreasing precipitation in SHY weakened soil erosion, and the increasing precipitation with a rate of 0.26 mm a(-1) in WHY improved the soil moisture content. Therefore, our results show that climatic change has a relatively high sensitivity, especially in WHY, to the expansion or reversal of ADL in semi-arid regions.
英文关键词	Climate change Aeolian desertification Aeolian desertified land (ADL) Northwest Shanxi province Semi-arid region
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000630073500003
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary ; Water Resources
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Geology ; Water Resources
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/350105
作者单位	[Xue, Zhanjin; Cheng, Fangqin] Shanxi Univ, Inst Resources & Environm Engn, 92 Wucheng Rd, Taiyuan 030006, Peoples R China; [Qin, Zuodong; Yan, Junxia] Shanxi Univ, Inst Loess Plateau, Taiyuan 030006, Peoples R China; [Xue, Zhanjin; Ding, Guangwei] Northern State Univ, Dept Chem, Aberdeen, SD 57401 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Xue, Zhanjin,Qin, Zuodong,Cheng, Fangqin,et al. Quantitative characterization of climate change and its impact on aeolian desertification: a case study in northwest Shanxi of China[J],2021,80(7).
APA	Xue, Zhanjin,Qin, Zuodong,Cheng, Fangqin,Ding, Guangwei,&Yan, Junxia.(2021).Quantitative characterization of climate change and its impact on aeolian desertification: a case study in northwest Shanxi of China.ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH SCIENCES,80(7).
MLA	Xue, Zhanjin,et al."Quantitative characterization of climate change and its impact on aeolian desertification: a case study in northwest Shanxi of China".ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH SCIENCES 80.7(2021).