Dulan County
Dulan County
ᠳᠤᠯᠠ���ᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ 都兰县 • ཏུའུ་ལན་རྫོང་ | |
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 Dulan County (light red) within Haixi Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai | |
  Dulan Location in Qinghai | |
| Coordinates: 36°18′N 98°05′E / 36.300°N 98.083°ECoordinates: 36°18′N 98°05′E / 36.300°N 98.083°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Haixi |
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| Elevation | 3,194 m (10,479 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 816100 |
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| Simplified Chinese | 都兰县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 都蘭縣 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan | ཏུའུ་ལན་རྫོང་ | ||||||||||
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| Mongolian script | ᠳᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ | ||||||||||
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Dulan County (Mongolian:ᠳᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ ; Tibetan: ཏུའུ་ལན་རྫོང་; Chinese: 都兰县) is a county of east-central Qinghai province, China. It is under the administration of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
Climate[]
With an elevation of around 3,200 metres (10,000 ft), Dulan County has a subalpine semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk), with long, very cold and winters, and warm summers. Average low temperatures are below freezing from early/mid October to mid/late April; however, due to the wide diurnal temperature variation, only December and January have an average high that is below freezing. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 60% in July to 81% in November, the county seat is very sunny, receiving 3,092 hours of bright sunshine annually; relative humidity in all months is below 50% and is for seven months below 40%. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from −9.6 °C (14.7 °F) in January to 15.2 °C (59.4 °F) in July, while the annual mean is 3.41 °C (38.1 °F). Over 70% of the annual precipitation of 218 mm (8.58 in) is delivered from May to August.
| Climate data for Dulan County (1981−2010 normals) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | −2.3 (27.9) |
0.8 (33.4) |
5.6 (42.1) |
11.2 (52.2) |
15.8 (60.4) |
19.2 (66.6) |
21.9 (71.4) |
21.4 (70.5) |
16.9 (62.4) |
10.4 (50.7) |
4.1 (39.4) |
−0.4 (31.3) |
10.4 (50.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −9.6 (14.7) |
−6.2 (20.8) |
−1.1 (30.0) |
4.4 (39.9) |
9.1 (48.4) |
12.8 (55.0) |
15.2 (59.4) |
14.5 (58.1) |
9.8 (49.6) |
3.2 (37.8) |
−3.4 (25.9) |
−7.8 (18.0) |
3.4 (38.1) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −14.7 (5.5) |
−11.4 (11.5) |
−6.4 (20.5) |
−1.5 (29.3) |
3.0 (37.4) |
6.9 (44.4) |
9.4 (48.9) |
8.5 (47.3) |
4.2 (39.6) |
−2.0 (28.4) |
−8.3 (17.1) |
−12.8 (9.0) |
−2.1 (28.2) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 4.1 (0.16) |
4.6 (0.18) |
7.8 (0.31) |
11.2 (0.44) |
31.3 (1.23) |
49.4 (1.94) |
51.5 (2.03) |
25.9 (1.02) |
18.9 (0.74) |
6.2 (0.24) |
3.5 (0.14) |
3.2 (0.13) |
217.6 (8.56) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 4.4 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 3.5 | 6.6 | 9.6 | 11.3 | 7.5 | 5.2 | 2.9 | 2.3 | 3.7 | 65.2 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 41 | 35 | 33 | 31 | 38 | 46 | 48 | 44 | 43 | 35 | 33 | 38 | 39 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 231.8 | 220.4 | 250.2 | 278.1 | 288.1 | 268.3 | 268.0 | 278.3 | 257.0 | 271.7 | 248.0 | 231.9 | 3,091.8 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 75 | 72 | 68 | 71 | 66 | 62 | 60 | 66 | 69 | 78 | 81 | 77 | 70 |
| Source: China Meteoroloical Administration (precipitation days, sun 1971−2000)[1][2] | |||||||||||||
Administrative Divisions[]
Transport[]
References[]
- ^ 中国气象数据网 - WeatherBk Data (in Chinese (China)). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
- ^ 中国地面国际交换站气候标准值月值数据集（1971－2000年）. China Meteorological Administration. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
External links[]
- County-level divisions of Qinghai
- Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture