干旱程度表现在全球的河流地形
Shiuan-An Chen1, Katerina Michaelides2,3, Stuart W D Grieve4
1School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. sc16970@bristol.ac.uk.
Nature
|September 19, 2019
概括
气候极大地影响了河流的地形. 干旱地区的河流形状变得更直,这表明干旱是排水盆地演变的主要驱动因素,受雨水流失的影响.
科学领域:
- 地球表面的过程
- 地形学
- 气候科学
背景情况:
- 气候通过降雨,排水和排水盆地的侵蚀影响着陆地表面的地形.
- 河流的纵向形状反映了流域的演变,并应显示区域气候的相互作用.
- 由于数据局限性和构造学和土地使用等混因素,在河流形状中检测气候信号是很困难的.
研究的目的:
- 研究气候区与全球河流纵向形状之间的关系.
- 确定控制河流形状演变的气候机制
主要方法:
- 编制了333,502个河流纵向资料的全球数据集.
- 分析了不同气候区的形状 (度).
- 使用简单的数值建模来测试配置形状上的水文控制.
主要成果:
- 河流的形状随着干旱程度的增加而呈现出更直的形状.
- 河流形状的全球模式是通过与降雨流水制度相关的水文控制来解释的.
- 河流下游的变化速率,独立于排水面积,是一个关键因素.
结论:
- 河流地形清楚地表达了干旱的特征.
- 气候是排水盆地演变的第一阶段控制.
- 在形成河流形状时,水文反应对不同降水流动模式至关重要.
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