The Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region, located over East China, is an international urban agglomeration radiating Asia Pacific with convenient transportation, advanced manufacturing industry, and modern service industry. intensive human activities have exerted substantial effects on the weather climate YRD region during past decades, thus bringing more challenges to accurate forecasting. However...

Based on a high-quality dataset of 713 daily precipitation series, changes in daily precipitation events during 1960–2013 were observed in China’s ten largest river basins. Specifically, the amount of precipitation in four categories defined by fixed thresholds and their proportion on total precipitation were analyzed on annual and seasonal time scales. Results showed annual precipitation incre...

Although precipitation interannual variability is projected to increase due to climate change, effects of changes in precipitation variance have received considerable less attention than effects of changes in the mean state of climate. Interannual precipitation variability effects on functional diversity and its consequences for ecosystem functioning are assessed here using a 6-year rainfall ma...