Temporal variations of reference to meteorological factors evapotranspiration and its sensitivity in Heihe River Basin, China.pdfVIP

Availableonlineat、^，、^，vv．sciencedirect．com ScienceDirect WaterScienceandEngineering2015，8(1)：1—8 http：／w／ww．waterjourna1．cn TemporalvariationsofreferenceeVapOtranspiratiOnand itssensitivity tOmeteOrO1Ogica1factorsinHeiheRiverBasin，China ⑩一 JieZhao，Zong—xueXu木，De—pengZuo，Xu—mingW ang CollegeofWaterSciences，BeijingNormalUniversity,Beijing100875，PRChina Received 12July2014；accepted22December2014 Availableonline21January2015 Abstract Onthebasisofdailymeteorologica1datafrom 15meteorologicalstationsintheHeiheRiverBasin(HRB)duringtheperiodfrom 1959 to2012．1ong—term~endsofreferenceevapotranspiration(ETo)andkeymeteorologicalfactorsthataffectETo wereanalyzedusingtheMann— Kendal1test．Theevaporationparadoxwasalsoinvestigatedat15meteorologicalstations．Inordertoexplorethecontributionofkeymeteo— rologicalfactorstothetemporalvariationofETo ．asensitivitycoefficientmethodwasemployedinthisstudy．Theresultsshowthat：(1)mean nanualairtemperaturesignificantlyincreasedatall15meteorologicalstations．whilethemeanannualETo decreasedatmostofsites；(21the evaporationparadoxdidexistintheHRB．whiletheevaporationpraadoxwasnotcontinuousinspaceandtime；andf3)relativehumiditywasthe mostsensitivemeteorologicalfactorwithregradtothetemporalvariationofETo inhteHRB，followedbywindspeed，airtemperature，andsolra radiation．Airtemperatureandsolarradiationeontributedmosttothetemporalvariation0fE intheupperreaches；solra radiationandwind speedwerethedetemr iningfactorsforthetemporalvraiationofE inthemiddle—lowerreaches