Beijing Daxue xuebao. Ziran kexue ban · 2006 · 18 citations · 0 references
Natural ResourcesEarth SciencesHydrologyClimatologyHydrometeorologyTime Series AnalysisHydrologic CycleHydrologic Time Series AnalysisPrecipitationRainfall-runoff RelationshipsRiver Basin HydrologyWater CycleHydrological Time Series AnalysisRainfall Time Series AnalysisRainfall Variability AnalysisRegional Precipitation PatternsSeasonal Precipitation PatternsWavelet AnalysisWavelet Analysis In HydrologyWavelet-based Analysis
The Yellow River Basin is located in the arid and semi - arid region in the north of China, where is less river runoff and precipitation is the basis source of water resources , the basin is with seriously scarce water resources in China, even less in the world. Based on the monthly and annual rainfall data from 1961 to 2000 of 97 weather stations, the spatial structure and changes of rainfall and the multi-time scales characteristics of seasonal and annual rainfall in the past 40 a in the Yellow River Basin had been analyzed using Mexican Hat wavelet analysis in this report. The periodic oscillation of rainfall variation and the points of abrupt change at different time scales along the time series are discovered and the main periods of every serial are confirmed. It was showed that the distribution of rainfall in the Yellow River Basin had obviously regional difference, which was influenced not only by the weather system but also by the geographical environment such as topography, etc; there are obvious periodic oscillation of 8-12 a and 4-6 a for the seasonal and annual rainfalls variation. The variation trend of the summer rainfall is similar in some degree with that ofthe annual rainfall and both of them have the comparable main periods. The localization characteristics of time - frequency for wavelet analysis can demonstrate the detailed structures of rainfall. The wavelet analysis can be an alternative approach to analyze climate multi-time scales characteristics and forecast short - term climate variations.