Journal of Geographical Sciences ›› 2018, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (1): 31-45.doi: 10.1007/s11442-018-1457-1
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Qian XU1,*(), Yuxiang DONG1,2(
), Yuying WANG1, Ren YANG1, Chengdong XU3
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2017-06-09
Accepted:
2017-07-10
Online:
2018-01-10
Published:
2018-01-10
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Qian XU
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Qian XU, Yuxiang DONG, Yuying WANG, Ren YANG, Chengdong XU. Determinants and identification of the northern boundary of China’s tropical zone[J].Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2018, 28(1): 31-45.
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Table 1
The tropical zone of Huang’s regionalisation scheme"
Thermal zone | Region/sub-region | Zone | Province | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Tropical zone | Humid region | Eastern sub-region | Tropical monsoon forest and latosol zone | Plain of southern Taiwan and Kaohsiung |
Plain and hilly southern Guangdong | ||||
Plain and hilly Hainan | ||||
Mountains of Hainan | ||||
Western sub-region | Tropical monsoon forest and latosol zone | Basin among mountains of southern Yunnan | ||
Equatorial zone | Humid region | Equatorial rainforest zone | Nansha Islands |
Table 2
Detection results of the delimitation index of the northern boundary of China’s tropical zone (q value)"
Regiona- lisation scheme | Mean temperature of the coldest month | Extreme lowest temperature | ≥10°C accumulated temperature | Annual average of monthly mean temperature | Days with daily temperature ≥10°C | Days with daily minimum temperature ≤2°C | Lowest daily mean temperature | Days with daily minimum temperature ≤0°C | Average of q value |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Huang’s | 0.24 | 0.20 | 0.11 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.05 | 0.12 |
Zeng’s | 0.11 | 0.47 | 0.37 | 0.37 | 0.41 | 0.29 | 0.35 | 0.19 | 0.32 |
Yu’s | 0.05 | 0.15 | 0.10 | 0.09 | 0.07 | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.03 | 0.08 |
He’s | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.15 | 0.19 | 0.07 | 0.19 | 0.19 | 0.19 | 0.17 |
Ren’s | 0.52 | 0.52 | 0.34 | 0.35 | 0.41 | 0.30 | 0.32 | 0.20 | 0.37 |
Zheng’s | 0.23 | 0.16 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.07 | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.03 | 0.10 |
Average | 0.23 | 0.28 | 0.19 | 0.20 | 0.19 | 0.16 | 0.18 | 0.12 | / |
Maximum | 0.52 | 0.52 | 0.37 | 0.37 | 0.41 | 0.30 | 0.35 | 0.20 | / |
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