The Coincident Relationships between the Qehan Lake Area Fluctuation and the Climate Change in the Nearly 40 Years

Abstract:

The objective of this study is to analyse the climate changing patterns chronologically for exposing the coincident relationships between the lake area fluctuation and the climate change in Qehan lake of Abaga county of Inner Mongolia. The results show that there’s highly interrelation between the changes of the lake area and the climatic factors here, the annual average temperature and annual evaporation are negatively interrelate to the lake area fluctuation, and the annual precipitation interrelate to it is positive. The lake area has descended about 75 km2 during the nearly past 40 years. There were about two considerable lake expansions in 1973, 1998 through the generally lake area descending process.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 137)
• Pages: 286-290
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.137.286
• Online since: October 2011
• Authors: Xi Chun, Mei Jie Zhang, Mei Ping Liu
• Keywords: Climate Change, Lake Area Fluctuation, Qehan Lake

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