Supplementary material
Table S1 Climate and geographical information for 8 meteorological stations around Mt.
Xiangpi
Meteorological
station
Gangcha
Gonghe
Haiyan
Chaka
Tianjun
Tuole
Delingha
Dachaidan
MAT/°C
MAP/mm N(Latitude) E(Longititude)
-0.3
4.1
0.5
2.2
-1.1
-2.7
3.8
1.9
381.3
391.9
211.5
360.0
292.9
166.7
-
37.33
36.27
36.95
37.78
37.30
38.50
37.37
37.51
100.85
100.62
100.85
99.08
99.03
98.3
97.37
95.22
Altitude/m
Time span
3301.5
2835.0
3140.0
3087.6
3404.0
3668.0
2981.5
3173.2
1970-2000
1971-2000
1956-2007
1971-2000
Station
No.
52856
52753
52737
52713
Note: ‘-‘means data not available.
We obtained climate and geographical information for 8 meteorological stations around
Mt. Xiangpi and developed a transfer function between MAT and the geographic parameters
using the least squares multiple regressions by SPSS software with an equation as follow.
MAT = 29.806+0.601×LAT-0.191×LON-0.01×ALT (R2 = 0.99, n=9), where LAT, LON, and
ALT represent latitude, longitude and altitude, respectively. The equation has a RMSE of
±0.43 °C, which means this equation can predict MAT that fits well with the actual values.
Table S2 Climate and geographical information for 7 meteorological stations around Mt.
Rungwe, Tanzania
Locations
IRINGA
MBEYA
TUKUYU
KYELA
KISANGA
MATAMBA
IPINDA
Altitude/m
MAT/°C
MAP/mm
1428
1706
1424
503
147
2107
491
19.1
17.0
20.5
25.3
25.8
16.6
24.1
661.0
850.0
1960.4
1270.2
1357.0
1061.9
1502.9
A similar transfer function between altitude and MAT was obtained according to the
meteorological record in Table S2:
MAT = -0.005×Altitude+26.96 (R2 = 0.96, n = 7)
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