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Statistical characteristics of the spatial distribution of wind and snow in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

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At present, the wind and snow loads are calculated independently when determining the design specifications for building structures. Yet, when snow drifting occurs, the basic wind and snow pressures exist almost simultaneously. Therefore, building specifications based on the independent calculations of the wind and snow loads cannot be used effectively in areas that are severely impacted by snow drifting. Some parts of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China have suffered particularly severe snow drifting natural disasters. In this paper, we offer an analysis of the statistical characteristics of the spatial distribution of wind and snow in this region. In particular, we extract the values of the combined distribution of the wind and snowfall in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China by using parameters such as snowfall intensity, snowfall amount, wind speed, and wind direction as indicators that show the snow drifting disasters. This study found that, after heavy snowfall events, the accumulative wind scale is high and the accumulative snowfall is large in the Altay, the Bortala Mongol Autonomous, and the Tacheng Prefectures of northern Xinjiang, and the Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture of western Xinjiang. It has an important practical significance for the design of building structures and the treatment of snow drifting disasters.

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Acknowledgements

The research reported herein was sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51778381), the Hebei Province Natural Science Fund (Grant No. D2016210008 and Grant No. E2018210044) and the Hebei Province Social Science Fund (Grant No. HB21GL010). We would like to thank TopEdit (www.topeditsci.com) for English language editing of this manuscript.

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  1. Mengke Liu, Junyu Wang, Qingkuan Liu and Jianqing Bu have contributed equally to this work.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behavior and System Safety of Traffic Engineering Structures, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, Shijiazhuang, 050043, Hebei, People’s Republic of China

    Xuetao Yu, Qingkuan Liu & Jianqing Bu

  2. Key Laboratory of Traffic Safety and Control of Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang, 050043, Hebei, People’s Republic of China

    Xuetao Yu & Jianqing Bu

  3. School of Traffic and Transportation, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, Shijiazhuang, 050043, Hebei, People’s Republic of China

    Xuetao Yu, Mengke Liu, Junyu Wang & Jianqing Bu

  4. Wind Engineering Research Center, School of Civil Engineering, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, Shijiazhuang, 050043, Hebei, People’s Republic of China

    Qingkuan Liu

  5. Innovation Center for Wind Engineering and Wind Energy Technology of Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang, 050043, Hebei, People’s Republic of China

    Qingkuan Liu

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Appendices

Appendix A

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Table 4 Appearance frequency of different daily wind scales in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region during the period of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 11th, and 12th months from 1968 to 2016
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Appendix B

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Table 5 Basic wind speed of each station in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at different reoccurrence periods
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Appendix C

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Table 6 Occurrence times of different snowfall grades in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region within 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 11th, and 12th months from 1968 to 2016
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Table 7 The numbers of occurrences of different wind scales for 6 days (including the day of snowfall) after the top ten maximum snowfall days in winter at all stations in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
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Appendix E

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Table 8 The normalized total snowfall and the normalized accumulated wind scale of all stations in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
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Appendix F

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Table 9 Accumulative snowfall and accumulative wind scale taken from the top ten maximum snowfall events at each station in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
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Yu, X., Liu, M., Wang, J. et al. Statistical characteristics of the spatial distribution of wind and snow in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Nat Hazards 111, 1977–2009 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-021-05127-4

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