Drought is one of the major agro-meteorological disasters to restrict the improvement of grain production and quality in China. The soil moisture and mineral elements affect alternately to the growth and development of winter wheat as well as the yield and quality. The response of leaves mineral elements accumulation, yield and grain quality of winter wheat to different grades drought stress was explored at the moisture critical period, which has a certain realistic significance to scientific fertilization and drought disaster prevention. At the moisture critical period (jointing to flowerings stage), the winter wheat ‘Qimai 2’ was used as material to set the water control experiments with five gradients (T1 treatment, soil moisture at 20 cm depth was suitable (60%-80%) in the whole period, and T2, T3 and T4 treatments were supplied once with water at 80%, 50% and 25% of 75.0 mm base recharge, respectively, while T5 treatment wasn’t supplied water), the influences of drought stress on the accumulation of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium mineral elements, photosynthetic pigments and photosynthetic parameters, yield and grain quality of winter wheat were simulated and analyzed. The results show that the total nitrogen, total phosphorus, photosynthetic pigment content and the maximum net photosynthetic rate (Pnmax), apparent quantum efficiency (AQE) and light saturation point (LSP) of winter wheat leaves were all the highest under T1 treatment during the water control to rewatering. Due to drought stress, the above-mentioned indicators reduced significantly under T2, T3, T4 and T5 treatments, and the heavier the drought stress, the greater the reduction was. Compared with T1 treatment, the total nitrogen, total phosphorus content, chlorophyll a, chlorophyll a+b, carotenoid content, Pnmax, AQE and LSP of leaves reduced by 1.68%, 0.15%, 0.90 mg·g-1, 1.05 mg·g-1, 0.21 mg·g-1, 64.6%, 65.8% and 31.2% under T5 treatment, respectively. However, the total potassium content and light compensation point (LCP) of leaves increased with the aggravation of drought stress, and those under T5 treatment were 1.20% and 84.0% higher than under T1 treatment, respectively. In addition, the drought stress decreased significantly spike grains number, forming spike rate and thousand grains weight. Compared with T1 treatment, the theoretical yield and grain protein content decreased by 56.6% and 30.1%, respectively, while the grain starch content increased by 11.6% under T5 treatment.
Based on the observation data of national weather station, Doppler radar data, National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) reanalysis data and European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) fifth-generation global atmospheric reanalysis (ERA5) from 2010 to 2019, the echo pattern,climatic characteristics as well as the change of physical quantity of heavy precipitation with quasi-linear MCSs were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. The results are as follows: (1) There were three types of echo patterns, namely trailing stratiform (TS) type, leading stratiform (LS) type, and parallel stratiform (PS) type.TS type had the highest frequency, while LS and PS types were relatively rare. Heavy precipitation with quasi-linear MCSs had obvious characteristics of monthly and diurnal variation, and it occurred frequently in July and first half of the night. (2) The heavy precipitation with quasi-linear MCSs formed under four synoptic-scale circulation patterns, namely low trough, transverse trough, low vortex and westerly circulation types, and the low trough type was most. (3) The relatively dry and cold air coming from the west direction at 700 hPa and the low level southwest airflow acted together, and it intensified the stratification instability of the atmosphere and improved the precipitation efficiency. The larger southerly wind component of water vapor at 850 hPa was more conducive to the formation of rainfall weather with relatively small rain area but large rain intensity. The coordination of the southeasterly wind at 925 hPa significantly enlarged the heavy rainfall area. (4) The heavy precipitation with quasi-linear MCSs generated under strong thermal environment. The convective available potential energy (CAPE) varied from 316.7 to 1545.7 J·kg-1, vertical energy helicity (VEH) was positive and it was obviously greater than 2×10-4 J·m·kg-1·s-2, which were the favorable energy conditions for the formation of the heavy precipitation with quasi-linear MCSs. In the process of heavy precipitation of PS type MCSs, the upper level horizontal divergence strengthened the pumping effect, and it allowed the large ascent rate to be maintained. The superior dynamic condition was one of the important reasons for the longer duration heavy precipitation.
The experiment was conducted during the growth season of summer maize in 2018 in moisture control field of automatic control rain shelter in agriculture meteorological test station of Linyi. With ‘Zhengdan 958’ (ZD958) as test material, five-gradient water control tests were designed during the critical period of water (jointing to blooming stage). The effects of continuous drought stress on photosynthetic physiology and yield formation of summer maize in the critical period of water were simulated and studied. The results show that the leave chlorophyll a content, net photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance, transpiration rate and plant height, leaf area, total dry weight above ground parts of summer maize at the flowering stage decreased under continuous drought stress during the water critical period, and the heavier drought stress was, the greater reduction was. The above elements under T5 treatment were 42.6%, 75.5%, 83.2%, 65.1%, 27.5%, 18.2% and 44.9% lower than those under T1 treatment in turn. The water use efficiency of summer maize leaves increased firstly and then decreased with the intensification of drought stress, and it reached the highest under light drought stress. Under continuous drought stress, the nutrient allocation of maize leaves and sheaths increased, while the nutrient supply of stems, fruits and roots decreased, which wasn’t conducive to healthy growth of summer maize, the risk of lodging increased, and the yield formation was difficult. In addition, the continuous drought stress also caused increase of bald tip ratio and double spike rate of summer maize and significant decrease of 100-kernel weight and theoretical yield.
A contrast analysis of two heavy rainstorm occurred in Liaocheng of Shandong Province in different seasons was made from synoptic situation,physical quantity field and radar echoes characteristic.The results show that the summer rainstorm usually accompanied by strong convective weather,mid-cyclone and adverse wind areas.When the heavy rainstorm occurred in autumn,the intensity of radar echoes was not very strong but lasted longer,and some physical quantity indexes related to heavy rainstorm were lower in autumn than those of in auummer.The forecast of heavy rainstorm in autumn is difficult.