Draw a Picture of China's Precipitation Pattern over the Past Five Decades

摘要

By examining China's meteorological and hydro-logical data over the past 50 years, a research team led by Prof. Ye Baisheng from the CAS Cold & Arid Regions Environmental & Engineering Research Institute has made clear the regional trends of precipitation throughout the country. The researchers have found that the country's precipitation presents an obviously regional trend in its variation through an analysis of the monthly precipitation data from 678 meteorological stations across the country and the runoff recordings from the hydro-logical stations along the mainstreams of the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and the Songhuajiang River from 1951 to 1998.