What China's worst drought on record looks like - BBC
A month-long heatwave and record low rainfall have resulted in an unprecedented drought along the Yangtze, China's longest river. Lakes and tributaries have receded as a result of the...
Understanding climate change impacts on drought in China over …
Jan 30, 2024 · This study investigates drought events, focusing on the region of China, using simulations from five global climate models (GCMs) under three Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP1-2.6, SSP3-7.0,...
China is suffering from fewer but more severe Drought to flood …
Nov 7, 2024 · Recently, DFAA events have received significant attention worldwide. The Yangtze River Basin in China experienced an exceptionally severe DFAA event in 2011, enduring severe drought from April onwards but then facing sudden and extremely powerful rainstorms in early June (Wang et al., 2021).Additionally, in September 2015, South Carolina and Kenya underwent a rapid transition from drought to ...
High temps, drought in China affect drinking water, crops
Aug 16, 2022 · BEIJING (AP) — Unusually high temperatures and a prolonged drought are affecting large swaths of China, reducing crop yields and drinking water supplies. The lack of rain has been especially marked in the southwestern megacity of Chongqing, which encompasses a large area of mountains and rivers.
China’s Record Drought Is Drying Rivers and Feeding Its Coal Habit
Aug 26, 2022 · Dry weather in southwestern China has crippled huge hydroelectric dams, forcing cities to impose rolling blackouts and driving up the country’s use of coal.
China’s record heatwave, worst drought in decades
Aug 31, 2022 · China’s record heatwave, worst drought in decades. In the summer of 2022, China was hit by its most severe heatwave in six decades, exacerbating a drought that has impacted food and factory...
Impacts of record-breaking compound heatwave and drought …
Jan 15, 2024 · In the summer of 2022, China experienced a series of record-breaking heatwaves and unprecedented low rainfall-induced droughts across much of China's regions. Using a reanalysis of the meteorological dataset, we confirmed that the 2022 concurrent heatwaves in China were more frequent and widespread than in the past (1979–2021).
China's Drought Is Pushing It To Rely Even More on Coal | TIME
Sep 2, 2022 · Record low rainfall has driven an unprecedented drought along the Yangtze, China’s longest river. Then suddenly this week, the same Southwest region that’s been devastated by scorching...
Causes and Changes of Drought in China: Research Progress
Jul 6, 2020 · The progress and problems of drought research in China are analyzed and future prospects are proposed, with emphasis on the multi-factor synergetic effect for drought formation; the effect of land-atmosphere interaction; identification, monitoring, and prediction of flash drought; categorization of drought and characteristics among various ...
Exogenous moisture deficit fuels drought risks across China
Dec 21, 2023 · Exogenous drought occurs most frequently in southeastern and southern China, resulting in a higher drought exposure (Fig. 1) and a strong correlation between exogenous drought exposure and ...