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Possible solar control on the historical hydrological variation during the past 500 yrs in Guangdong area, South China: A wavelet approach
XUE Jibin * #,ZHONG Wei
School of Geography, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631
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Funding: the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (No.20114407120005), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.41101185)
Opened online:26 December 2014
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Citation: XUE Jibin,ZHONG Wei.Possible solar control on the historical hydrological variation during the past 500 yrs in Guangdong area, South China: A wavelet approach[OL]. [26 December 2014] http://en.paper.edu.cn/en_releasepaper/content/4624682
 
 
Correlativity between the hydrological variations in the Guangdong area and solar activity reflected by total solar irradiance during the past 500 years was detected using continuous wavelet transform, cross-wavelet and wavelet coherence approaches, as well as pattern matching. Periodicities of ~11 yr and ~32 yr are observed in the flood/drought series coinciding with those known for solar cycles. In-phase relations in shorter timescales and anti-phase relations in longer timescales are identified between flood/drought variations (represented by FDI) and solar activity (represented by TSI), suggesting that the phase is changing over different timescales and the relations are in-phase and anti-phase alternately during different periods. Such a relationship suggests that solar activity is possibly the controlling factor for paleohydrological variations in the Guangdong area. However, the flood/drought variability may be impacted by some other ambiguous factors, which leads to more complicated relations between flood/drought variation and solar activities.
Keywords:wavelet approach; hydrological variation; solar activity; Guangdong area
 
 
 

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