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DOI | 10.1002/joc.5517 |
Precipitation fields in an alpine Mediterranean catchment: Inversion of precipitation gradient with elevation or undercatch of snowfall? | |
Collados-Lara, Antonio-Juan1; Pardo-Iguzquiza, Eulogio2; Pulido-Velazquez, David1; Jimenez-Sanchez, Jorge1 | |
2018-07-01 | |
发表期刊 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY |
ISSN | 0899-8418 |
EISSN | 1097-0088 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 38期号:9页码:3565-3578 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Spain |
英文摘要 | The mean precipitation measurements in a Mediterranean Alpine catchment in Sierra Nevada show an inversion of the gradient with the altitude beyond a certain threshold. Is it due to a real pattern or it can be explained by systematic error of solid precipitation measurement in gauges? Can we assess climatic fields in an alpine catchment from gauge measurement? This article describes a research developed to answer both questions in the Alto Genil Basin. As commonly happens in most of the basins, the spatio-temporal information from climate gauges is limited; therefore to reduce uncertainty in estimates of climatic fields, some secondary information should be introduced. Since orographic conditions clearly influence precipitation, the relationship between this climatic variable and elevation is usually included as secondary information into the estimates. However, while there is a clear relationship between temperature and elevation, the relationship between precipitation and elevation is not so simple. In this article the analysis of the data performed allow us to demonstrate that there is a real inversion of the gradient within this Mediterranean Alpine area as other authors previously pointed in some tropical and subtropical zones. The intensity of this phenomenon and the altitude threshold from which it appears can be altered as a consequence of the undercath of the solid precipitation. To estimate precipitation fields, we have used different hypotheses about the intensity of the undercatch taking into account empirical corrections obtained for nearby mountain ranges. An analysis of the sensitivity of the results to the assumed undercatch hypothesis shows that it is not possible to estimate properly precipitation fields (the sensitivity of the results to the adopted hypothesis is high) in these alpine areas if we only have information about the precipitation measurements at the stations. |
英文关键词 | alpine basin Alto Genil Basin climatic estimation inverse precipitation gradient with elevation snow undercatch |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000439794000006 |
WOS关键词 | SPATIAL INTERPOLATION ; MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN ; ACCUMULATION ; PATTERNS ; CHINA ; VARIABILITY ; DEPENDENCY ; TOPOGRAPHY ; RAINFALL ; MODELS |
WOS类目 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/37037 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Inst Geol & Minero Espana, 4 Edificio Zulema Bajo, Granada 18006, Spain; 2.Inst Geol & Minero Espana, Madrid, Spain |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Collados-Lara, Antonio-Juan,Pardo-Iguzquiza, Eulogio,Pulido-Velazquez, David,et al. Precipitation fields in an alpine Mediterranean catchment: Inversion of precipitation gradient with elevation or undercatch of snowfall?[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY,2018,38(9):3565-3578. |
APA | Collados-Lara, Antonio-Juan,Pardo-Iguzquiza, Eulogio,Pulido-Velazquez, David,&Jimenez-Sanchez, Jorge.(2018).Precipitation fields in an alpine Mediterranean catchment: Inversion of precipitation gradient with elevation or undercatch of snowfall?.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY,38(9),3565-3578. |
MLA | Collados-Lara, Antonio-Juan,et al."Precipitation fields in an alpine Mediterranean catchment: Inversion of precipitation gradient with elevation or undercatch of snowfall?".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY 38.9(2018):3565-3578. |
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