Climate types and characteristics in Shanxi Province

The climate types and characteristics of Shanxi Province are analyzed as follows:

Shanxi is located in the inland of the east coast of the mainland, surrounded by mountains. Therefore, it is difficult to be influenced by the sea breeze and form a relatively strong continental climate. At the same time, due to the attack of cold air mass in Inner Mongolia in winter, the north is relatively cold, forming the climate characteristics of Shanxi. The winter is long, cold and dry, the summer is short, hot and rainy, the daily temperature difference in spring is large, there are many sandstorms and the climate is mild.

Due to the temperate continental monsoon climate, the annual average temperature is 3 to 14 degrees Celsius, with a large temperature difference between day and night and a large temperature difference between north and south. The annual precipitation in the province is 400-650 mm, but the seasonal distribution is uneven. Summer precipitation is highly concentrated in June-August, with abundant rainfall, accounting for more than 60% of the annual precipitation. The precipitation in the whole province is greatly influenced by topography, with many mountains and few basins.

Expanding knowledge: topography and geomorphology of Shanxi Province

Shanxi Province is located in the east wing of the Loess Plateau in the west of North China. The landform as a whole is a mountainous plateau covered by loess, and the overall outline is slightly parallelogram from northeast to southwest. The landform types are complex and diverse, including mountains, hills, plateaus, basins and platforms, of which mountains and hills account for 80% and plateaus, basins and platforms account for 20%.

Most areas are above 1000 meters above sea level, showing strong uplift compared with the eastern North China Plain. The highest point is Ye Dou Peak in Wutai Mountain in Northeast China, with an altitude of 3058 meters, which is the highest peak in North China. The lowest point is the place where the Xiyang River flows into the Yellow River in the southeast of Yuanqu County, Yuncheng City, with an altitude of only 180 meters. The terrain in this area fluctuates.

Shanxi province is mountainous, with rolling hills and ravines. The overall terrain is "two mountains and one river", with rolling mountains on the east and west sides, a string of beaded basins sinking in the middle, and plains distributed in them. The eastern part is a massive mountain formed by Taihang Mountain as the main vein. From north to south, there are mainly Hengshan Mountain, Wutai Mountain, Zhoushan Mountain, Taihang Mountain, Taiyue Mountain and Zhongtiao Mountain. Its mountains are tall and majestic, with an altitude of over 65,438+0,500 meters.

The west is the loess plateau with Luliang Mountain as the main stem. From north to south, there are Qifeng Mountain, Taohong Mountain, Guancen Mountain, Luya Mountain, Yunzhongshan Mountain, Heicha Mountain, Guandi Mountain, Bauhinia Mountain and Longmen Mountain, all above 1 1,500 m, and Guandi Mountain is as high as 2831m.

Datong, Xinzhou, Taiyuan, Linfen, Yuncheng and other polymorphic fault basins are separated from each other, and there is a unique fault basin in Changzhi Plateau in the southeast. The outline of the whole province is like a "concave" shape.

Datong, Xinzhou, Taiyuan, Linfen, Yuncheng, Jincheng and Changzhi basins in the middle and southeast of Shanxi Province, as well as small and medium-sized basins and river valleys between the east and west Taihang Mountains and Luliang Mountains, are densely populated and economically developed areas in the province.