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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 2021, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (7): 2534-2544.doi: 10.13287/j.1001-9332.202107.018

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Application of temperature vegetation dryness index for drought monitoring in Mongolian Plateau

KANG Yao1,2, GUO En-liang1,2,3*, WANG Yong-fang1,2, BAO Yu-long1,2, BAO Yu-hai1,4, NA Ren-mandula1,2   

  1. 1College of Geographical Science, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot 010022, China;
    2Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Disaster and Ecological Security on the Mongolian Plateau, Hohhot 010022, China;
    3Lanzhou Institute of Arid Meteorology, China Meteoro-logical Administration, Lanzhou 730020, China;
    4Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot 010022, China
  • Received:2020-12-09 Revised:2021-04-15 Online:2021-07-15 Published:2022-01-15
  • Contact: *guoel1988@imnu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    Natural Science Foundation of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China (2020LH04003),the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41807507),the High-level Introduction of Talent Research Start-up Fund in Inner Mongolia Normal University (2019YJRC003,2018YJRC008),the Drought Meteorology Science Research Program of China Meteorological Administration (IAM201904),and the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (61631011).

Abstract: Taking the Mongolian Plateau as the study area, the MODIS normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and the land surface temperature (LST) in the growing season from 2000 to 2019 were used to construct the NDVI-LST feature space, and based on which the temperature vege-tation dryness index (TVDI) of the Mongolian Plateau was calculated. We used Theil-Sen Median trend analysis, Mann-Kendall test, and Hurst index method to analyze the spatial and temporal varia-tions and future trends of TVDI on the Mongolian Plateau. Furthermore, we examined the relationship between meteorological factors and TVDI on the Mongolian Plateau using partial correlation analysis. The results showed that the TVDI of the Mongolian Plateau during 2000-2019 showed an increasing trend with a rate of 0.0001·a-1, indicating that the Mongolian Plateau's drought condition became heavier slightly in the last 20 years. The drought condition in meadow steppe and typical steppe gradually decreased, and that in desert steppe and alpine grassland was increased. The average Hurst index of TVDI in the growing season was 0.45, and the area with TVDI less than 0.5 accounted for 71.5% of the total area, which indicated that the TVDI during 2000-2019 in most areas turned opposite to the past. In the future, the drought condition in the central desert steppe area and the eastern meadow steppe area might increase, and that in most of the typical steppe and the desert steppe in Inner Mongolia tended to decrease. The drought change in the alpine grassland area was uncertain. There was a significant positive correlation between the TVDI and temperature in 33.6% area of the Mongolian Plateau and a significant negative correlation between the TVDI and precipitation in 34.8% of the area. Moreover, the meteorological factors heavily affected the typical steppe.

Key words: drought monitoring, temperature vegetation drought index, MODIS, Mongolian Plateau