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Evolution Characteristics of Compound Extreme Climate Events in the Yangtze River Basin from 1961 to 2022
XIA Zhi-hong, CHEN Xiao-xiao
Journal of Changjiang River Scientific Research Institute ›› 2025, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (11) : 1-8.
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Evolution Characteristics of Compound Extreme Climate Events in the Yangtze River Basin from 1961 to 2022
[Objective] Global warming has exacerbated extreme climate events and their compound hazards, causing increasingly severe impacts on both ecological environments and socioeconomic systems. [Methods] Based on daily meteorological observations from the Yangtze River Basin from 1961 to 2022, the percentile threshold method was used to identify extreme climate events, and four major types of compound extreme climate events were constructed from both temporal and spatial dimensions. The spatiotemporal distribution and evolution characteristics of compound events in the Yangtze River Basin were systematically analyzed. [Results] (1) The spatial distribution of the frequency and annual average duration of compound heatwave-drought events in the Yangtze River Basin generally exhibited a pattern of “low in the upstream source area and high in most parts of the middle-lower reaches”. The annual average frequency of regional heatwave-drought events was 1.8-1.9 times, the average duration per single event was 9.6-9.9 days, and the longest duration was 53-59 days. Both the frequency and duration of these regional heatwave-drought events showed an increasing trend over the past 62 years, with a more significant increase in the upstream. (2) The spatial distribution of the frequency of drought-flood abrupt alternation events in the Yangtze River Basin was characterized by “low in the upper reaches and high in the middle-lower reaches”. The frequency was approximately three events per decade in the upper reaches and six events per decade in the middle-lower reaches. Over the past 62 years, the occurrence frequency has exhibited a slight increasing trend, with the growth rate in the middle-lower reaches being twice that of the upper reaches. (3) The spatial distribution of the frequency of compound flood-heatwave events in the Yangtze River Basin exhibited a pattern of “low in the upstream source area and high in most parts of the middle-lower reaches”. The frequency was approximately five events per decade in the upper reaches and seven events per decade in the middle-lower reaches. Over the past 62 years, it has shown a significant increasing trend. (4) Compound flood events involving both the upper and middle-lower reaches of the Yangtze River occurred every year, with an annual average frequency and duration of 3.7 times and 25 days, respectively. These events exhibited a fluctuating increasing trend over the past 62 years. [Conclusion] Overall, in the context of climate change, compound extreme climate events in the Yangtze River Basin show a significant increasing trend. The intensification of temperature-related extreme events is more pronounced in the upper reaches, while the intensification of precipitation-related extreme events is more prominent in the middle-lower reaches. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the extremeness of various compound events has increased significantly.
compound extreme climate events / compound heatwave-drought events / compound flood events / drought-flood abrupt alternation / Yangtze River Basin
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In recent years, the frequent extreme weather and climate events have attracted wide attention. Their disastrous process often stems from the interaction of multiple factors, which brings many challenges to regional security and risk prevention. Starting from a bibliometric analysis, this article systematically reviewed the progress of research on compound extreme events by focusing on the conceptual features, classification, and driving factors of such events, and summarizing the main methods for the spatial-temporal dependance analysis and hazard assessment of compound events. The review found that: 1) The research on compound extreme events has developed rapidly in recent years, and the types of events studied have become increasingly rich and diverse. 2) The research system has been established and increasingly improved, with significant advance in the research on the conceptual characteristics, dependance, causative mechanism, and risk assessment. 3) The research techniques were constantly evolving. Statistical modeling for joint probability based on Copula has developed from two-dimensional to multidimensional, and from static to dynamic; the precision of numerical simulations represented by the coupled hydrological-hydrodynamic and ocean models has been continuously improved. But further in-depth studies are still needed, especially for some key and difficult problems, such as diagnosing and modeling the complex dependance structure of temporally and spatially compounding events, the synthetic effect of weather system, large-scale circulation and human activity impact on the formation of compound events, hazard scenarios and multidimensional joint probability analysis of compound events, and so on. In addition, it is urgent to explore the non-stationary changes of the marginal distribution and dependance structure of compound events under climate change and their impact on the risk of compound events in the future. |
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