Exploring the Relationship between Rising Temperatures and the Number of Climate-Related Natural Disasters in China
| Autor: | Mingan Zhu, Bihang Fan |
|---|---|
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
China
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Natural resource economics Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Disaster mitigation Natural Disasters Climate change lcsh:Medicine 01 natural sciences Article elasticity coefficient Disasters 03 medical and health sciences Humans Natural disaster disaster mitigation 030304 developmental biology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences 0303 health sciences lcsh:R wavelet analysis Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Temperature climate change varying patterns Arc elasticity Environmental science time series |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Volume 18 Issue 2 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 745, p 745 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 1660-4601 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph18020745 |
| Popis: | Warming has strongly influenced the quantity and variability of natural disasters around the globe. This study aims to characterize the varying patterns between rising temperatures and climate-related natural disasters in China from 1951 to 2010. We examined the overall trend in the patterns of an 11-year cycle, and climate-related natural disaster responses to periods of rising and dropping temperature. We used Morlet wavelet analysis to determine the length of a temperature cycle period, and the arc elasticity coefficient to assess the number of climate-related natural disasters in response to the changing temperature. We found that: (1) the overall relationship between temperature and the number of climate-related natural disasters was positive (2) however, on the cycle level, the pattern of climate-related natural disasters was found to be independent of temperature variation (3) on the rise-drop level, temperature increases were associated with declines in the number of climate-related natural disasters. Moreover, as temperature decreased, the number of climate-related natural disasters increased substantially, such that temperature had a more considerable influence on the quantity of climate-related natural disasters during the temperature-drop period. Findings in this study can help enhance the dissemination of warning and mitigation efforts to combat natural disasters in the changing climate. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|