摘要
Throughout vast areas of Asia,the summer of 2020 was extraordinarily wet.After an exceptionally wet May in Northeast India and Bangladesh,excessive rainfall hit at least 10 provinces in central and southern China in June and July,causing extensive flooding in many rural and urban locations.Long standing rainfall,lake and river level records were consequently broken in several parts of the region with the Yangtze-Huaihe river valleys,particularly badly impacted,with consequential economic losses.Floods and landslides also affected parts of Japan with at least one location in Kumamoto province even experiencing a record-breaking 1000 mm of rainfall in just 3 days in early July.The 2020 wet season in South Korea was also exceptionally long,lasting 54 days,compared to their more usual 32.
基金
Robin CLARK was supported by the UK-China Research&Innovation Partnership Fund through the Met Office Climate Science for Service Partnership(CSSP)China as part of the Newton Fund.Chang-Hoi HO was supported by Korea Meteorological Administration Research and Development Program(Grant No.KMI2020-00610)
Tetsuya TAKEMI was supported,on this topic,by the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund(ERTDF)JPMEERF20192005 of the Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency(ERCA)of Japan.
