Spatiotemporal Analysis of Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Changes and Precipitation Trends in Shanghai

Applied Sciences

Jun Wang¹  Qin Jiang¹  Jiahong Wen²  Haizhen Mu³  Ming Xu⁴  Xiaogang He⁵ 

[1] Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science (Ministry of Education), East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China;School of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China;Shanghai Climate Centre, Shanghai Meteorological Bureau Service, Shanghai 200030, China;Shanghai Meteorological Society, Shanghai Meteorological Bureau Service, Shanghai 200030, China;Water in the West, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA;

关键词: land use and land cover;    precipitation trends;    precipitation extremes;    built-up area;    Shanghai;   

DOI  :  10.3390/app10217897

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The impacts of anthropogenic land use and land cover (LULC) changes on the spatiotemporal distribution of precipitation in megacities have been highlighted in studies on urban climate change. In this study, we conducted a quantitative analysis of urban growth on the impact on precipitation in Shanghai, China. We considered four periods of LULC data in 1979, 1990, 2000 and 2010, in addition to the long-term (1979–2010) trend of daily precipitation. The results indicate that the trend in precipitation exhibit different characteristics for urban (Ur), outskirt of urban (OUr) and outer suburb (OS) regions. Most Ur regions had an upward trend in annual and extreme precipitation during 1979–2010, while annual precipitation for the OUr and OS regions exhibited a decreasing trend. From 1979 to 2010, the areas of fastest expansion were located in the OUr region. The OS region, far away from the central area, had a relatively lower rate of change. In addition, OUr regions with rapid LULC changes exhibited higher increasing trends in annual and daily extreme precipitation, which is critical for the identification of frequent precipitation areas and the reliable projection of further changes.

【 授权许可】

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