Spatial distribution analysis on climatic variables in northeast China

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Shang, Zong-Bo | Gao, Qiong | Yang, Dian-An | Yang, Zheng-Yu

Affiliations: Laboratory of Quantitative Ecology, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China. E-mail:shangzb@sohu.com

Abstract: Information ecology is a new research area of modern ecology. Here describes spatial distribution analysis methods of four sorts of climatic variables, i.e. temperature, precipitation, relative humidity and sunshine fraction on Northeast China. First,Digital terrain models was built with large-scale maps and vector data. Then trend surface analysis and interpolation method were used to analyze the spatial distribution of these four kinds of climatic variables at three temporal scale: (1) monthly data; (2)mean monthly data of thirty years, and (3) mean annual data of thirty years. Ecological information system were used for graphics analysis on the spatial distribution of these climate variables.

Keywords: spatial distribution analysis, information ecology, trend surface analysis, climate variables

Journal: Journal of Environmental Sciences, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 247-251, 2001