Sensitivity analysis of potential evapotranspiration to key climatic factors in the Shiyang River Basin | Zendy

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Sensitivity analysis of potential evapotranspiration to key climatic factors in the Shiyang River Basin

Author(s) -

Xuelei Zhang,

Weihua Xiao,

Yicheng Wang,

Yan Wang,

Miaoye Kang,

Hejia Wang,

Ya Huang

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

journal of water and climate change

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.421

H-Index - 22

eISSN - 2408-9354

pISSN - 2040-2244

DOI - 10.2166/wcc.2020.225

Subject(s) - evapotranspiration , environmental science , wind speed , relative humidity , air temperature , drainage basin , atmospheric sciences , sunshine duration , structural basin , humidity , sensitivity (control systems) , climate change , hydrology (agriculture) , climatology , meteorology , ecology , geography , geology , paleontology , cartography , geotechnical engineering , electronic engineering , engineering , biology

This paper focuses on determining the spatial and temporal characteristics of the sensitivity coefficients (SCs) between potential evapotranspiration (ET0) and key climatic factors across the Shiyang River Basin (SYRB) from 1981 to 2015. Penman–Monteith equation and a sensitivity analysis were used to calculate ET0 and the SCs for key climatic factors. Sen's slope was used to analyze the observed series. According to the results, the sensitivity significances were in the order of relative humidity (RH) > net solar radiation (NSR) > wind speed (WS) > maximum air temperature (Tmax) > minimum air temperature (Tmin). The SCs for the RH and NSR were larger in the upper mountainous region, while the other three coefficients were larger in the middle and lower reaches. All five climatic factors for the ET0 SCs showed increasing trends in the mountainous region, and the Tmax, WS and RH SCs increased in the middle and lower reaches. Over the past 35 years, the change in ET0 was dominated by the air temperature (T), RH and NSR, and the increase in ET0 during the studied period was mainly due to the increases in T and NSR.

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