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Research progress on tourism climate indices and human comfort
SONG Xuping, LUO Qiyin, HAN Yunze, HU Yue, WANG Rui, MA Pan, WANG Shigong
Journal of Arid Meteorology    2023, 41 (6): 961-971.   DOI: 10.11755/j.issn.1006-7639(2023)-06-0961
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The TCIs (tourism climate indices) are applications of the human comfort in climate health tourism. TCIs aim to characterize the climate and environmental status of tourist destinations and provide a comprehensive measure of tourists’ climatic well-being. In this study, the Web of Science and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) databases were searched for visualization analysis, explained the connotation of the TCIs and human comfort index, summarized the historical evolution of TCIs and the human comfort index, and discussed the existing problems and countermeasures of TCIs researches. In order to provide theoretical support for the in-depth research and sustainable development of TCIs in the future. The results are as follows: (1) The English studies were more concerned with tourism satisfaction and competitiveness, whereas the Chinese studies were more concerned with human comfort, climate comfort, and climate tourism. (2) Human comfort indices were primarily composed of meteorological factors and clothing insulation, which aims to reflect the human body's feeling of environmental comfort. The TCIs not only covers meteorological factors and aesthetic factors, but also considers health factors such as air quality and oxygen content, aiming to comprehensively evaluate the suitability of tourism activities and the effect of climate health of travelers.

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Influence of air temperature on number of respiratory diseases hospitalization in two counties of Liaoning Province
YIN Ninglu, LI Junlin, HONG Ye, GUO Yong, WANG Shigong
Journal of Arid Meteorology    2023, 41 (1): 132-142.   DOI: 10.11755/j.issn.1006-7639(2023)-01-0132
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In order to find out the relationship between temperature and the number of hospitalized patients with respiratory diseases, relevant departments reasonably implement disease prevention and early warning in county-level cities in Liaoning Province. Based on the daily meteorological observation data and respiratory system hospitalization data of Beipiao City and Xifeng County in Liaoning Province from 2016 to 2018, the seasonal distribution characteristics and age distribution characteristics of the number of hospitalizations with respiratory system were analyzed. On this basis, the generalized additive model (GAM) and the distributed lag non-linear model (DLNM) were used to explore the effect of temperature on the number of hospitalizations for respiratory diseases, and the results were stratified by sex and age. Modeling using attributable fractions (AF) to quantify the disease risk of exposure to specific temperature ranges (eg, extreme cold temperature, moderate cold temperature, moderate hot temperature, extreme hot temperature). The results show that the annual peak of the number of hospitalizations for respiratory diseases in the two places occurs in winter and spring, and the majority of the sick people are children and the elderly. The optimal temperatures for people in Beipiao City and Xifeng County are 26.2 ℃ and 22.2 ℃, respectively. The impact of temperature on the incidence of respiratory diseases is dominated by the lag effect of cold temperature, and the immediate effect of hot temperature is not significant. In Beipiao City and Xifeng County, 27.0% (95% confidence interval: 20.3%-32.9%) and 29.0% (95% confidence interval: 22.1%-35.0%) of respiratory system hospitalizations were attributed to temperature, respectively, and the disease risk was mainly moderate cold temperature. The incidence of Beipiao City and Xifeng County was attributed to moderate cold temperature accounted for 25.9% (95% confidence interval: 19.5%-31.5%) and 28.1% (95% confidence interval: 21.5%-33.9%), respectively. In terms of age distribution, compared with the adult group, the percentage of diseases attributable to moderate cold is higher in the children group and the elderly group. In addition, the elderly group is also more sensitive to extreme low temperatures. In terms of gender stratification, women are more susceptible to low temperature than men. The temperature of the two county-level cities in Liaoning Province has different effects on different groups of people, the risk of disease caused by temperature on women and elderly residents is high.

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Characteristics of Human Body Comfortable Degree in Hainan Island Based on REOF Method
LIN Yingyi,WANG Shigong,MA Pan,ZHANG Jinghong,ZHANG Yajie
Journal of Arid Meteorology    2021, 39 (5): 838-846.   DOI: 10.11755/j.issn.1006-7639(2021)-05-0838
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Based on daily conventional observation data at 19 meteorological stations of Hainan Island from 1980 to 2018, the climatic season in Hainan Island was divided according to China’s meteorological industry standard (QX/T152-2012). Then, the comfortable degree of human body was calculated by using sensible temperature of human body based on ‘golden ratio’ method. And on this basis the comprehensive division of human body comfortable degree was done in each season in Hainan Island by using rotated empirical orthogonal function (REOF), further the optimum comfortable zones of climatotherapy rehabilitation were obtained in Hainan Island. The results are as follows: (1) The climate was mild and moist in Hainan Island, and the annual average temperature was 22.9 to 25.3 ℃, the average annual precipitation was 1157 to 2615 mm, the annual average relative humidity was 74% to 86%, and the annual average specific humidity was 14.8 to 16.4 g·kg-1, which was suitable to rehabilitation. (2) Compared with the conventional climate statistical method, the meteorological industry standard was more in accordance with season division in Hainan Island. According to the climate division, the summer was from mid-March to mid-November in Hainan Island, the autumn and spring were from mid-November to next mid-March, which indicated that there wasn’t winter in Hainan Island, and the optimum period of climatotherapy rehabilitation appeared in spring and autumn. (3) The comfortable region of human body in spring and autumn located in northern Hainan, central Hainan and southern Hainan. Overall, the climate in central Hainan was the most optimal, and the climate in three regions was stable from 1980 to 2018.

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Effect of Temperature Change Between Neighboring Days on Emergency Visits of Coronary Heart Disease and Cerebral Infarction in Beijing
CHEN Lei, MA Pan, HUANG Kailong, SONG Wenchao, ZHANG Meng, WANG Shigong
Journal of Arid Meteorology    2021, 39 (3): 494-506.  
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The 36 458 cases of coronary heart disease (CHD) and cerebral infarction (CI) in Beijing from 2008 to 2012 were collected. Based on the fundamental impact of solarterrestrial relationship on temperature change between neighboring days (TCN), a year was divided into two periods dominated by opposite TCN period in this study. The results show that high morbidity of CHD generally occurred in periods from awakening of insects to grain rain, as well as from white dew to winter solstice, which accompanied by large TCN period. In contrast, low morbidities of both CHD and CI took place in the period from grain in ear to summer solstice, which accompanied by small TCN period. Stronger effects of positive TCN period were revealed on young and middleaged (less than and equal to 65 years old) CHD patients than that on the old group (more than 65 years old) by timeseries models, whose relative risk (RR) was up to 1.31. The elderly suffering from CHD were sensitive to negative TCN period, regardless of background temperature trends. Furthermore, in negative TCN period, positive TCN could elevate the highest CI risk for young individuals (less than 45 years old) immediately (RR was equal to 1.23). In conclusion, the shortterm effects of TCN on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases were significant, and seasonal temperature trends modified TCNcardiovascular morbidity associations significantly.
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Study on Climate Comfort Degree and Its Health Care Effect in Three Tourist Cities of Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau
LU Shan, GUO Yong, ZHENG Jiangping, WANG Shigong
Journal of Arid Meteorology    2021, 39 (2): 317-325.   DOI: 10.11755/j.issn.1006-7639(2021)-02-0317
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For the needs of healthy tourism development, based on the daily meteorological observation data at Lijiang of Yunnan Province, Xishui and Jinping of Guizhou Province, the characteristics of climate comfort degree were analyzed based on human body comfort index caculated by ‘the Golden Section method’ and its classification in the three famous tourist cities. And on this basis the concentration degree of generalized comfort period in the three cities and their complementarity in time were studied. Finally, combined with the relevant disease data, the effect of climatic health care was explored. The results show that the generalized comfort period was longer in Lijiang and Xishui cities, which concentrated from February to November and March to November, respectively, and the climate comfort degree was high and the number of patients with respiratory diseases was low in each month of summer, so the effect of climatic health care was significant in summer. The climate in spring and autumn was comfortable in Jinping County, the climate comfort degree was higher in April, May, September and October, and the incidence rate of diseases was relatively low during the generalized comfort periods. In short, the effect of climatic health care on respiratory diseases was the best in summer in the three places, followed by circulatory system diseases, and the optimal climate comfort periods and health care effects among the three places were complementary in time, which was beneficial to clusters of climatic health care and tourism. The above results could provide some references for the choice of health care and tourist time in the above three places.
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Exploration of Climatotherapy Connotation Based on Migration of Longevous Siberian Crane and Its Enlightenment#br#
WANG Xinzi, GUO Yong, ZHENG Jiangping, MA Pan, LIN Yingyi, YUE Man, WANG Shigong
Journal of Arid Meteorology    2021, 39 (2): 309-316.   DOI: 10.11755/j.issn.1006-7639(2021)-02-0309
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Based on the daily meteorological observation data at 17 weather stations of China and NCEP reanalysis data along the migration route of Siberian Crane during 1959-2018, the variation ranges of main meteorological elements in habitats and resting places of Siberian Crane were analyzed. Combined with the meteorological observation data at 547 weather stations in mainland of China from 1961 to 2019, the human body comfort degrees were respectively calculated and classified in habitats of Siberian Crane and mainland of China by using the human body comfort index and classification standard based on ‘the Golden Section’, and the characteristics of inner climatotherapy life during the migration of Siberian Crane were probed. The results show that the temperature in habitats and stopover places of Siberian Crane was from 0 ℃ to 15 ℃, and the relative humidity, average wind velocity and atmospheric pressure changed from 60% to 80%, 2 to 3 m·s-1 and 1005 hPa to 1018 hPa, respectively. In general, Siberian Crane aimed to the cool, humid, breezy and clear meteorological environment, they spent 90.83% time of a year living in cool, cooler or slightly cold zones. By migrating seasonally, they stayed away from extreme cold or heat to ensure longevity, which could provide better reference for the migratory-bird sojourn of elder people in China. The human body comfort degrees in mainland of China had obvious spatial difference and seasonal complementary characteristics. The climate in Northeast China, Northwest China and part areas of Southwest China was comfortable in summer, while in coastal areas of South China and Hainan it was comfortable in winter. The periods of generalized comfort level in major cities of China could be used as a reference for the migratory-bird sojourn of the elderly. In addition, the suitable stopover could buffer the significant change of meteorological environment between the origin and destination and make the body gradually to adapt the change during the travelling to escape the heat or cold, which would effectively reduce or avoid the travelling health risks due to the wide change of meteorological environment in short period.
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Influence of meteorological factors on number of upper respiratory tract infection visits in Luohu of Shenzhen
HUANG Kailong, LIN Jinchun, MA Pan, HUANG Wenjing, LU Junxiang, TANG Xiaoxin, WANG Shigong
Journal of Arid Meteorology    2021, 39 (06): 995-1005.   DOI: 10.11755/j.issn.1006-7639(2021)-06-0995
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The daily number of patients with upper respiratory tract infection (URI) in 49 community health service centers in Luohu of Shenzhen from 2014 to 2018 and meteorological data in the same period were collected to analyze the changing characteristics of the number of patients with URI at different time scales. The distributed lag non-linear model (DLNM) and generalized linear model (GLM) were used to study the relationship between different meteorological factors and the number of patients with URI in Shenzhen. The results show that there was a significant seasonal change for the number of patients with URI in Luohu of Shenzhen. The peak periods of cases were March to April in spring, July in summer and December to next January in winter, corresponding to Pure Brightness, Lesser Heat and Lesser Cold of the 24 solar terms, respectively. The DLNM model showed that air temperature was the main impact factor, and its effect on the number of patients with URI presented mainly cold effect, the relative risk (RR) reached the peak after 4 days lag (RR was equal to 1.041, the 95% confidence interval was between 1.022 and 1.060). Women were more affected by cold effect than men, and middle-aged and elderly people were more affected by cold effect than children. Another important factors were thermal effect in summer and the variable temperature in spring. The influence of humidity presented mainly low humidity effect, and the relative risk reached the peak (RR was equal to 1.058, the 95% confidence interval was between 1.049 and 1.068) on the same day. Pressure and wind speed showed high pressure effect and strong wind effect, and RR reached the highest after 1 day lag. In conclusion, cold air activities in winter and spring and their cold effects such as low temperature, low humidity and strong wind were the key factors to induce URI, followed by the impact of continuous high temperature in summer, both of them should be focused on timely prevention.

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Application of Analog Forecast Method in Cloud Cover Prediction in Shanxi Province
HUANG Hailiang, JIN Shuanglong, WANG Shigong,CHEN Luyuan, DONG Chunqing
Journal of Arid Meteorology    DOI: 10.11755/j.issn.1006-7639(2018)-05-0845
Application Test of Physical Quantities in a Severe
 Precipitation Forecast in Qinghai
PEI Gasang1,4, JIN Shuanglong2, ZENG Xiaoqing3, WANG Shigong1, HUANG Hailiang1,5
Journal of Arid Meteorology    DOI: 10.11755/j.issn.1006-7639(2018)-03-0507
Analysis of Characteristics of Traffic Accidents Under Adverse Weather Conditions in China During 2005-2014
NING Guicai1, KANG Caiyan1, CHEN Donghui, SUN Guanglin, LIU Jun, WANG Shigong, SHANG Kezheng, MA Minjing
Journal of Arid Meteorology    DOI: 10.11755/j.issn.1006-7639(2016)-05-0753
Progress of Traffic Meteorological Researches About Monitoring and Forecasting Services on Express Highways
KANG Yanzhen1, WANG Shigong1,2, YANG Xu1,LI Jingxin3, XU Wenjun4, SHANG Kezheng1
Journal of Arid Meteorology    DOI: 10.11755/j.issn.1006-7639(2016)-04-0591
A Study on Refined Forecast of Cloud Cover Based on Support Vector Machine
ZHAO Wenjing1, ZHAO Zhongjun2, WANG Jiehua, SHANG Kezheng,WANG Shigong, LIU Zhihui, KONG Debing, SU Junli
Journal of Arid Meteorology   
Study on Extended-range Precipitation Forecast Based on Low Frequency Oscillation in Midwest Region of Northwest China
JIA Xuwei, LI Xu, ZHANG Ying, SHANG Kezheng,YUE Man, WANG Shigong
Journal of Arid Meteorology    DOI: 10.11755/j.issn.1006-7639(2016)-03-0553

Probability Forecast Method of Thunderstorm in East Region of Northwest China Based on Stepwise Regression Analysis
KONG Debing, SHANG Kezheng, WANG Shigong,ZHAO Wenjing, YE Wei
Journal of Arid Meteorology    DOI: 10.11755/j.issn.1006-7639(2016)-01-0181
Temporal and Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Rainstorms in Ningxia During 1961-2013
SHAO Jian1,2, PEI Xiaorong3, LIU Juan2,SHI Honglei2, WANG Shigong4, HU Wendong1
Journal of Arid Meteorology    DOI: 10.11755/j.issn.1006-7639(2015)-04-0595
Analog Method and Application to Extended Range Forecast Based on Surface Meteorological Element
LI Xu1, WANG Shigong1, SHANG Kezheng1, ZHOU Hai2, WEI Linbo1
Journal of Arid Meteorology    DOI: 10.11755/j.issn.1006-7639(2015)-02-0324
Comparative Analysis of Climatic Cause About Two Continuous Severe Drought Events in Southwest China
WANG Jiayuan1,HU Xueping1,2,XU Pingping1,3,WANG Shigong1,SHANG Kezheng1
Journal of Arid Meteorology    DOI: 10.11755/j.issn.1006-7639(2015)-02-0202

Automatic Identificationand Prediction of Low Visibility Weather in North China
NI Jiangbo,LI Wencai,SHANG Kezheng,WANG Shigong, LI Deshuai
Journal of Arid Meteorology    2015, 33 (1): 174-179.   DOI: 10.11755/j.issn.1006-7639(2015)-01-0174
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By using the data of the visibility observations and NCEP reanalysis data during 2002 - 2011,the processes of low visibility weather in North China has been studied.The results show that the circulation situation on 500 hPa that caused low visibility weather in studied area could be divided into three types including two troughs and a ridge type,low trough type and zonal flow type,and the automatic identification system could be established to recognize the three weather types and eliminate other situations from these three types. On this basis,the use of K - index,the dew point temperature difference and pseudo-equivalent potential temperature difference between 500 hPa and 850 hPa gave a further physical diagnosis,and at last the forecast of low visibility weather could be obtained. The low visibility weathers occurring in North China in 2012 were forecasted by using the method mentioned above,the results show that the prediction effect of this forecast method was fine.

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Analysis of a Rare Regional Heavy Rainstorm Weather Process in Early Summer in Northwest Arid Area in 2012
HU Yuling,WANG Suichan,WANG Shigong,SHANG Kezheng,NING Guicai,KANG Caiyan
Journal of Arid Meteorology    2015, 33 (1): 128-137.  
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Based on the conventional observations,NCEP / NCAR reanalysis data,FY - 2E satellite images and radar data,the synoptic analysis and physical field diagnostic analysis methods were used to explore the triggering mechanisms and vapor sources of the heavy rainstorm that occurred in Northwest China. By analyzing circulation patterns,vapor,dynamic and unstable conditions,the results show that the southwestern low level jet and the eastern low level jet played significant roles during the heavy rainfall process,they brought abundant water vapor and unstable capability. Forward trough and warming humidification in the low layer made stratification convective instability.The overlay of convergence line on 700 hPa and the shear line on 850 hPa was the triggering condition,which resulted in the release of unstable capability and induced the heavy rainstorm. Meanwhile,convergence at low level and divergence at upper - level formed upward motion over the entire layer,which was the dynamic condition.The study not only provides focus for forecasting heavy rainstorms in arid Northwest China,but also supplies references to control flood and mitigate disasters for local government.

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The Construction and Quantitative Study of Upper - Level Trough Strength Index
ZHANG Yinghua,SHANG Kezheng,WANG Shigong,LI Deshuai,YE Peilong
Journal of Arid Meteorology    DOI: 10. 11755/j. issn. 1006 -7639(2014) -02 -0169
Evaluation of Tourism Climate Comfort Level in Pingliang of Gansu Province
DANG Bing,WANG Shigong,SHANG Kezheng
Journal of Arid Meteorology    DOI: 10. 11755/j. issn. 1006 -7639(2013) -04 -0684
The Evaporation Variation and Its Influence Factors in Xi’ning of Qinghai Province  
LI Jingxin,WANG Shigong,LI Yan,SHANG Kezheng,XIANG Dong
Journal of Arid Meteorology    DOI: 10. 11755/j. issn. 1006 -7639(2013) -03 -0497