Climatic characteristics and causes of Turpan

Turpan climate: temperate continental climate. Turpan is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, located in the middle of the autonomous region. It is an olive-shaped intermountain basin in the eastern Tianshan Mountains, surrounded by mountains, and belongs to a typical continental warm temperate desert climate. Jurisdiction 1 district 2 counties, with a total area of 697 13 square kilometers; In 20 17, the total population was 637300.

The climate of Turpan is a typical continental warm temperate desert climate, with abundant sunshine, sufficient heat but extremely dry, scarce rainfall and frequent winds, so it is called "volcanic island" and "wind reservoir". The annual sunshine hours here are about 3000-3200 hours, which is about 1000 hours more than that in East China at the same latitude. The annual solar radiation is 139.5- 150.4 kcal/cm2, which is 15-20 kcal/cm2 more than that in North China and Northeast China at the same latitude. The annual average temperature is 13.9℃, and the days of high temperature above 35℃ are more than 100 days.

In summer, the extreme high temperature is 49.6℃, the surface temperature is above 70℃, and the highest record is 82.3℃. The locals are known as "roast chicken eggs in the sand nest" and "toast on the stone". The extreme minimum temperature in winter is-28.7℃; The daily temperature difference and annual temperature difference are large, the effective accumulated temperature is above 10℃ and above 5300℃, and the long-term frost-free period is about 2 10 days. Because of the hot and dry climate, it seldom rains here. The average annual precipitation is only 16.4 mm, while the evaporation is as high as 3000 mm or more.

The climate in Turpan Basin is caused by wearing fur coats and gauze in the afternoon and eating watermelons around the stove. This is a description of the climate in Turpan Basin.

Turpan basin is located in the mainland, with a remarkable temperate continental climate and a desert landscape on the surface. The basin topography is easy to concentrate heat during the day in summer and cool down quickly at night. The temperature difference between day and night is large.