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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2016, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (20): 133-140.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb16040098

Special Issue: 农业气象

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Risk Regionalization of Blizzard Disaster in Shanxi Province Based on GIS

Miao Aimei1, Wang Hongxia1, Lu Zhangyu2   

  1. (1Shanxi Meteorological Observatory, Taiyuan 030006; 2Institute of Agricultural Technology Information, Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Science, Taiyuan 030006)
  • Received:2016-04-15 Revised:2016-06-27 Accepted:2016-05-23 Online:2016-07-15 Published:2016-07-15

Abstract: In order to reduce the impact of blizzard disaster, the climatic characteristics of blizzard in Shanxi Province was studied. The comprehensive risk regionalization of blizzard disaster was conducted from the risk of hazard factors, the sensitivity of disaster inducing environment, the vulnerability of disaster bearing body and the ability of disaster prevention and mitigation with the data of the average annual day numbers of blizzard, the snow depth more than 5 cm, the maximum snow depth data from 1980 to 2012 of 108 counties and cities, and the DEM altimetric data, geographic information data and social economy data like population density, per capita GDP, cultivated land ratio and road density data. The results showed that: the sequence of blizzard stations in recent 33 years in Shanxi was mainly composed of two waves whose periods were four and three years respectively; the monthly average number of blizzard stations in March was the largest, followed by that in April and November; the blizzard days gradually increased from the northwest to the southeast, the risk level of blizzard disaster in Changzhi, Jincheng, Yangquan and Jinzhong were the highest, while that in Yuncheng, southern Linfen, northern Lvliang and southwest Datong were the lowest. Compared with the historical disaster data and the blizzard disasters in last ten years in Shanxi, the comprehensive risk regionalization results were quite reasonable, and this study could provide scientific basis for the prevention and evaluation of the blizzard disaster in Shanxi Province.