Chinese Journal of Agrometeorology ›› 2024, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (9): 1067-1078.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-6362.2024.09.010

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Spatio-temporal Variation of Guangxi Drought Based on the SPEI_PM and Its Correlation with ENSO

TANG Jin-li, HU Bao-qing, YU Bi-yun, ZOU Yi, SU Hong-xin   

  1. 1.Key Laboratory of Environment Change and Resources Use in Northern Gulf (Ministry of Education)/Guangxi Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Intelligent Simulation, Nanning Normal University, Nanning 530001, China; 2. School of Management Science and Engineering, Guangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanning 530003
  • Received:2023-06-08 Online:2024-09-20 Published:2024-09-18

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Abstract:

Using monthly data from 19 meteorological stations in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region from 1961 to 2020, this study calculated the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) based on the Penman-Monteith evapotranspiration model (SPEI_PM). The temporal and spatial variation of meteorological drought were analyzed via linear tendency estimation, and Mann-Kendall trend test. The correlation between El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and meteorological drought in Guangxi was also explored by cross-correlation function, cross wavelet transform and wavelet coherence. The values for summer, autumn, and annual SPEI_PM from 1961 to 2020 exhibited a significant linear trend of increasing wetness over time. Annual and seasonal droughts throughout the region were predominately mild and moderate, with less frequent severe and extreme droughts. Spring droughts were concentrated in the central part of the region, summer droughts in the southwest, autumn droughts in the southeast and northeast, and winter droughts spread throughout the region. Annual droughts were concentrated in the northeast. The rate of drought occurrence as measured by the stations in Guangxi exhibited a distinctly chronological character. Large-scale droughts (especially severe and extreme droughts) across the entire region occurred most often in the 1960s, 1970s, and 2000s. The impact of ENSO on the meteorological drought in Guangxi was characterized by spatial heterogeneity. Correlation between the ocean Niño index (ONI) and meteorological drought was highest in the northeast and southeast, as well as the northwest. There was no significant correlation between drought and ONI in coastal areas and most southwestern parts of the region. As a typical example from meteorological stations in northeastern Guangxi, SPEI-3 and ONI at the Guilin Meteorological station showed interannual oscillation cycles of 16−48 months in the period 1962−1976, and 12−64 months in the period 1990−2019. These results can serve as a useful reference for future drought forecasting and assessment in Guangxi.

Key words: Climate change, Drought index, ENSO index, Wavelet analysis, Guangxi