Abstract
Abstract. The impact of droughts on vegetation is essentially manifested as
the transition of water shortage from the meteorological to ecological
stages. Therefore, understanding the mechanism of drought propagation from
meteorological to ecological drought is crucial for ecological conservation. This study proposes a method for calculating the probability of meteorological drought to trigger ecological drought at different magnitudes in northwestern China. In this approach, meteorological and ecological drought events during 1982–2020 are identified using the three-dimensional identification method; the propagated drought events are extracted according to a certain spatiotemporal overlap rule, and propagation probability is calculated by coupling the machine learning model and C-vine copula. The results indicate that (1) 46 drought events are successfully paired with 130 meteorological and 184 ecological drought events during 1982–2020, and ecological drought exhibits a longer duration but smaller affected area and severity than meteorological drought; (2) a quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA) classifier performs the best among the 11 commonly used machine learning models which are combined with four-dimensional C-vine copula to construct the drought propagation probability model; and (3) the hybrid method considers more drought characteristics and a more detailed propagation process which addresses the limited applicability of the traditional method to regions with large spatial extent.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Engineering,General Environmental Science
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