Abstract
Precipitation, as one of important input variable for land surface hydrologic and ecological models, shows a high spatial and temporal variation. The daily precipitation by manual measurement is collected in Koxkar glacier catchment in rainy season during the period of 2009–2016, and hourly precipitation by standard tipping rain gauge is collected from May 19 to August 22 in 2016. Comparing the manual and standard tipping rain gauge, the performance of standard tipping rain gauge is suited in Koxkar glacier catchment in rainy season. The distribution of hourly precipitation is analyzed. The results have shown that precipitation is occurred more in daytime than in night, and frequency is concentrated at 15:00 to 17:00. The trend of precipitation and precipitation days are consistent at night, but obvious inconsistency in the daytime. These characteristics of precipitation have important role for further understanding of glacier changes with climate change.
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This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41771087; No. 41361013; No. 41471060). The authors would like to express their gratitude to Dr. Q. D. Zhao, S. H. Guo, State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Cold and Arid Regions of Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, for their valuable suggestions and cooperation.
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Zhao, C., Yao, S., Wang, J., Han, H. (2018). The Temporal Precipitation in the Rainy Season of Koxkar Glacier Based on Observation Over Tianshan Mountain in Northwest of China. In: Yuan, H., Geng, J., Liu, C., Bian, F., Surapunt, T. (eds) Geo-Spatial Knowledge and Intelligence. GSKI 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 848. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0893-2_56
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