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Northwest China, covering the provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang, and a portion of Inner Mongolia, has an extremely complex climate due to the varied terrain where environment is sensitive to climate change. We employed the Mann-Kendal test to investigate trends of precipitation distributions using annual, seasonal and monthly data records from 1960 to 2008. On the whole, the trends of precipitation are more complex than those for temperature. The trends of annual, seasonal and monthly precipitation have shown remarkable difference between the east and west. In the west, such as in northern Xinjiang and western Qinghai, the trend has shown a significant increase, consistent with the temperature change. Whereas in the east such as in eastern Gansu, southern Shaanxi, the trend has shown a remarkable decline, opposite to the change observed in temperatures.
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Zhao, C., Yao, S., Liu, J., Ren, Z., Wang, J. (2015). The Spatial-temporal Distribution of Precipitation in Northwest China (1960-2008). In: Bian, F., Xie, Y. (eds) Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem. GRMSE 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 482. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45737-5_32
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