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    Agriculture intensification increases summer precipitation in Tianshan Mountains, China

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    Cai, Peng
    Hamdi, Rafiq
    Luo, Geping
    He, Huili
    Zhang, Miao
    Termonia, Piet
    De Maeyer, Philippe
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    Discipline
    Earth and related Environmental sciences
    Audience
    Scientific
    Date
    2019-05-09
    Publisher
    Elsevier
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    The land-use and land-cover change has a significant impact on the climate at different spatio-temporal scales. In this study, we explored the long term oasis expansion effects on regional summer precipitation in the north slope of Tianshan Mountains, China using high-resolution regional climate model. The results indicate that the oasis expansion increases the summer precipitation in the middle Tianshan Mountains while it has only a small effect over the oasis regions itself. The results indicate further that the oasis expansion affects mainly the late afternoon summer convective precipitation. The advection of air with additional moisture from the oasis areas to the mountains due to the mountain/plain circulation system during the day triggers the orographic precipitation in the middle mountain regions. These new results indicate that the oasis expansion could attribute significantly to the recent finding from observational studies about the increasing trend of precipitation in the middle Tianshan Mountains.
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    Peng Cai, Rafiq Hamdi, Geping Luo, Huili He, Miao Zhang, Piet Termonia, Philippe De Maeyer, Agriculture intensification increases summer precipitation in Tianshan Mountains, China, Atmospheric Research, Volume 227, 2019, Pages 140-146, ISSN 0169-8095, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2019.05.005.
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    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/7270
    doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2019.05.005
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    Article
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    Language
    eng
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