SPATIAL/TEMPORAL FEATURES OF DROUGHT/FLOOD IN FUJIAN FOR THE PAST FOUR DECADES

Abstract:

41a (1961 - 2001) seasonal Z index series of 25 representative weather stations are investigated by virtue of EOF, FFT, continuous wavelet transformation (CWT) and orthogonal wavelet transformation (OWT). It shows that (1) Fujian drought/flood (DF) has a significant 2 - 3a cycle for the periods 1965 -1975 and 1990's; (2) the pattern, which represents the opposite DF trend between the southern and northern parts, has 1a and 3 - 4a cycles since the middle of 1980's; (3) EOF3, which denotes the reverse change between the middle-west region and other areas, has significant 1 - 2a cycle for the period from 1985 to 1998 and 9 - 13a cycle since 1980s; (4) there is an obvious drought trend for the last 40a (especially in the 1990's), which is more outstanding in the south (east) than in the north (west); (5) the 1960's and 1980's are in relatively wet phases and the 1970's and 1990's are in drought spells.