Climatic characteristics of Golmud City, Qinghai Province

The area under the jurisdiction of Golmud City belongs to the continental plateau climate, with little rain, windy and dry, long and cold winter and short and cool summer. The average annual rainfall is only 4 1.5mm, but the evaporation is as high as 3,000 mm. The sunshine time is long, with an average of 3358 hours per year, and the light and heat resources are sufficient.

Tanggula Mountain City is a typical alpine landform with a cold climate, only in winter and summer, with an annual average temperature of -4.2℃, an extreme high temperature of 35℃ and an extreme low temperature of -33.6℃. There is no absolute frost-free period. The annual average precipitation is 284.4 mm, and the annual evaporation is 1667 mm.

There is a large amount of salt lake resources under the jurisdiction of Golmud Basin. Chaerhan Salt Lake and Jinaier Mining Area in the east and west of Taiwan Province are the largest magnesium lithium salt deposits in China, with an area of 50 times that of Sears Salt Lake in the United States. Among them, 60 billion tons of chlorine-based modern salting-out minerals were collected. The reserves and grades of potassium, magnesium, lithium, boron, bromine, iodine and rubidium all rank first in China. Tanggula mountain area is rich in mineral resources such as crystal, lead, zinc and coal, which need to be developed urgently.

Extended data:

Golmud coordinates: 94.89, latitude 36.42. It is 338 kilometers away from the national capital and 7 10 kilometers away from the provincial capital Xining. Golmud is located in the hinterland of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the urban area is located in the south-central part of Qaidam Basin, with an altitude of 2,780 meters. As of 20 10, its total area is 1 19000 square kilometers, making it the largest city in the world with a built-up area of 27 square kilometers.

Golmud city is located in the middle of Eurasia, with complex terrain, high in the south and low in the north, and inclined from west to east. Kunlun Mountain and Tanggula Mountain run through the whole territory, and the mountains are steep and magnificent.

The city is located on the roof of the world, with continuous snow peaks, widely distributed glaciers, towering ice towers, criss-crossing rivers and dotted lakes. It is the highest peak of Tanggula Mountain in the world. Gladin Cave Xuefeng is 6549 meters above sea level, tall and majestic, and it is the birthplace of the Yangtze River and Lancang River. The basin has flat terrain, undulating sand dunes, oasis subsidence, and numerous salt lakes, alkali beaches and swamps, among which Chaerhan Salt Lake is the largest salt lake in the world and is known as the "king of salt lakes".

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Golmud