Relationship Between Topography and Wind Damages to Rubber Plantation: a Wind Damage Survey of Typhoon Ramasun in Hainan in 2014
doi: 10.15886/j.cnki.rdswxb.2015.04.017
- Received Date: 2015-03-26
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Key words:
- Hainan Island /
- rubber plantation /
- topography /
- wind damage rate /
- typhoon Ramasun
Abstract: Typhoon Ramasun slashed Hainan Island on July 18,2014 in Hainan,China. A survey of wind damages to rubber plantations in Hainan,China was made twice in July and August 2014 in the aftermath of the attack of the typhoon to study the relationship of different topographical factors with the wind damages to the rubber plantations in Hainan. The wind damages to the rubber plantations were found to be related with wind forces and also with the site environment of the rubber plantations. The severity of the wind damages to the rubber plantations was in the order of the top > the bottom > the middle of slope,or of the windward > the crosswind > the leeward slope. However,if there were other topographical factors affecting the wind damage to the rubber plantations,no obvious difference of the wind damage rate was observed between slope position and aspect. The wind damage rate increased with the slope degree,and it was obviously less in the rubber plantations with shelter belts than in those without shelter belts. The wind damage rate in special landforms was related to the location of the rubber plantation.
Citation: | CHEN Jihang, TAO Zhongliang, QIU Yuyi, QI Dongling. Relationship Between Topography and Wind Damages to Rubber Plantation: a Wind Damage Survey of Typhoon Ramasun in Hainan in 2014[J]. Journal of Tropical Biology, 2015, 6(4): 467-473. doi: 10.15886/j.cnki.rdswxb.2015.04.017 |