A Preliminary Study on the Relationship between Vegetation Cover and Regional Climate Change in Jiangsu Area of China

Abstract:

The relationship between vegetation cover and climate change is one of the most important research fields in global change. Herein Jiangsu province and thereabout in China is chosen to be the research field. Under the support of observations from normalized differential vegetation index (NDVI) during years from 1998 to 2008 and corresponding benchmark weather stations, the relationship between vegetation and climate change had been analyzed combined with simulations from regional climate model RegCM3, in perspectives of point vegetation cover amount and area vegetation cover type respectively. Conclusions are: (1) Points observations showed that NDVI had positive correlation with annual total precipitation and negative correlation with annual average temperature. (2) Area simulations showed that two different vegetation types in south and north Jiangsu almost had same 8warming value, but the incremental annual precipitation amount is more significant in south Jiangsu.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 448-453)
• Pages: 916-922
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.448-453.916
• Online since: October 2013
• Authors: Yan Rong Yang*, Zhe Kong, Chun Ming Liu
• Keywords: Regional Climate Change, Vegetation Cover

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