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Urbanization Significantly Affects Pan-Evaporation Trends in Large River Basins of China Mainland

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  • Chenchen Ren

    (Department of Atmospheric Science, School of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China)

  • Guoyu Ren

    (Department of Atmospheric Science, School of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
    Laboratory for Climate Studies, National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China)

  • Panfeng Zhang

    (Department of Atmospheric Science, School of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
    School of Tourism and Geographical Sciences, Jilin Normal University, Siping 136000, China)

  • Suonam Kealdrup Tysa

    (Department of Atmospheric Science, School of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China)

  • Yun Qin

    (Department of Atmospheric Science, School of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China)

Abstract

The causes of the pan-evaporation decline have been debated, and few researches have been carried out on the possible effect of local land use and land cover change on the regional pan-observation data series. In this paper, the urbanization effect on the estimate of pan-evaporation trends over 1961–2017 was examined for the data series of 331 urban stations, applying a previously developed dataset of the reference stations, in seven large river basins of the China mainland. The trends of pan-evaporation difference series (transformed to anomaly percentage) between urban stations and reference stations were negative and statistically significant in all of the basins, indicating that urbanization significantly reduced the pan-evaporation. The urbanization-induced trend in the whole study region was −2.54%/decade for the urban stations. Except for the Yellow River Basin and the upper Yangtze River Basin, the urbanization effects in the other five large river basins of the country are all significant, with the mid and low reaches of the Yangtze River and the Songhua River registering the largest urbanization effects of −4.08%/decade and −4.06%/decade, respectively. Since the trends of regional average series for reference stations across half of the river basins are not statistically significant, the urbanization effect is a dominant factor for the observed decline in pan-evaporation. This finding would deepen our understanding of the regional and basin-wide change in pan-evaporation observed over the last decades.

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  • Chenchen Ren & Guoyu Ren & Panfeng Zhang & Suonam Kealdrup Tysa & Yun Qin, 2021. "Urbanization Significantly Affects Pan-Evaporation Trends in Large River Basins of China Mainland," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(4), pages 1-11, April.
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