County in Qinghai, China
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, elevation 3,189 m (10,463 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010)
Month
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
Record high °C (°F)
11.7 (53.1)
15.9 (60.6)
20.0 (68.0)
27.1 (80.8)
28.0 (82.4)
28.9 (84.0)
31.8 (89.2)
32.2 (90.0)
30.3 (86.5)
23.3 (73.9)
16.1 (61.0)
11.5 (52.7)
32.2 (90.0)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)
−2.0 (28.4)
1.6 (34.9)
6.1 (43.0)
12.0 (53.6)
16.2 (61.2)
19.4 (66.9)
22.0 (71.6)
21.8 (71.2)
17.5 (63.5)
10.6 (51.1)
4.4 (39.9)
−0.6 (30.9)
10.8 (51.4)
Daily mean °C (°F)
−9.4 (15.1)
−5.5 (22.1)
−0.6 (30.9)
5.1 (41.2)
9.5 (49.1)
13.0 (55.4)
15.3 (59.5)
14.8 (58.6)
10.3 (50.5)
3.3 (37.9)
−3.1 (26.4)
−8.1 (17.4)
3.7 (38.7)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)
−14.7 (5.5)
−11 (12)
−6.1 (21.0)
−1.1 (30.0)
3.0 (37.4)
6.9 (44.4)
9.4 (48.9)
8.7 (47.7)
4.5 (40.1)
−2.0 (28.4)
−8.0 (17.6)
−13.2 (8.2)
−2.0 (28.4)
Record low °C (°F)
−26.4 (−15.5)
−22.2 (−8.0)
−18.1 (−0.6)
−12.6 (9.3)
−6.7 (19.9)
−1.3 (29.7)
0.6 (33.1)
0.2 (32.4)
−4.8 (23.4)
−12.6 (9.3)
−18.8 (−1.8)
−25.7 (−14.3)
−26.4 (−15.5)
Average precipitation mm (inches)
4.2 (0.17)
5.8 (0.23)
7.6 (0.30)
9.1 (0.36)
31.1 (1.22)
51.7 (2.04)
57.5 (2.26)
29.2 (1.15)
19.3 (0.76)
5.9 (0.23)
5.2 (0.20)
2.5 (0.10)
229.1 (9.02)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm)
4.3
3.8
4.5
3.9
7.4
10.6
11.4
8.6
6.1
2.8
2.6
3.2
69.2
Average snowy days
5.6
5.4
6.4
4.9
3.8
0.6
0.1
0
0.3
2.9
3.6
4.3
37.9
Average relative humidity (%)
41
36
33
30
37
48
51
47
45
37
37
38
40
Mean monthly sunshine hours
225.1
213.5
247.1
268.5
269.6
246.8
254.9
258.6
242.4
264.7
238.8
227.6
2,957.6
Percent possible sunshine
72
69
66
68
62
57
58
62
66
77
79
76
68
Source: China Meteorological Administration [ 2] [ 3] [ 4]
Climate data for Nuomuhong, Dulan (1991–2020 normals)
Month
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)
−0.5 (31.1)
4.5 (40.1)
9.8 (49.6)
15.9 (60.6)
20.5 (68.9)
24.1 (75.4)
26.5 (79.7)
25.9 (78.6)
21.5 (70.7)
14.3 (57.7)
6.5 (43.7)
0.4 (32.7)
14.1 (57.4)
Daily mean °C (°F)
−8.9 (16.0)
−4.1 (24.6)
1.6 (34.9)
7.8 (46.0)
12.6 (54.7)
16.4 (61.5)
18.5 (65.3)
17.5 (63.5)
12.9 (55.2)
5.3 (41.5)
−2.4 (27.7)
−8.0 (17.6)
5.8 (42.4)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)
−15.4 (4.3)
−11.1 (12.0)
−5.6 (21.9)
0.3 (32.5)
5.2 (41.4)
9.5 (49.1)
11.8 (53.2)
10.9 (51.6)
6.4 (43.5)
−1.5 (29.3)
−8.9 (16.0)
−14.4 (6.1)
−1.1 (30.1)
Average precipitation mm (inches)
1.1 (0.04)
0.7 (0.03)
0.8 (0.03)
1.4 (0.06)
7.5 (0.30)
14.0 (0.55)
12.8 (0.50)
7.5 (0.30)
4.9 (0.19)
0.6 (0.02)
0.3 (0.01)
0.5 (0.02)
52.1 (2.05)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm)
1.9
0.8
1.2
0.9
2.9
5.3
6.3
4.5
3.2
0.7
0.7
0.8
29.2
Average snowy days
2.8
1.9
2.6
1.3
0.7
0
0
0
0
0.6
1.4
1.3
12.6
Average relative humidity (%)
39
30
26
24
29
39
44
41
39
33
34
38
35
Mean monthly sunshine hours
223.8
220.3
264.6
284.0
288.3
262.7
267.3
264.7
244.4
259.3
243.9
227.1
3,050.4
Percent possible sunshine
72
71
71
72
66
60
61
64
67
76
81
76
70
Source: China Meteorological Administration [ 5] [ 6]
Administrative divisions
Dulan County is divided into 4 towns and 4 townships .
Name
Simplified Chinese
Hanyu Pinyin
Tibetan
Wylie
Mongolian (traditional script )
Mongolian (Cyrillic )
Administrative division code
Towns
Qagan Us Town (Chahanwusu, Cahainwusu)
察汉乌苏镇
Cháhànwūsū Zhèn
ཚ་ཧན་བུའུ་སུའུ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
tsha han bu'u su'u grong rdal
ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠨ᠋ᠤᠰᠤᠨ ᠪᠠᠯᠭᠠᠰᠤ
Цагааносон балгас
632822100
Xangdê Town (Xiangride, Dorboljin)
香日德镇
Xiāngrìdé Zhèn
ཤངས་སྡེ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
shangs sde grong rdal
ᠳᠥᠷᠪᠡᠯᠵᠢᠨ ᠪᠠᠯᠭᠠᠰᠤ
Дөрвөлжин балгас
632822101
Xarag Town (Xaruha, Xarrika, Xiariha)
夏日哈镇
Xiàrìhā Zhèn
ཤ་རུ་ཧ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
sha ru ha grong rdal
632822102
Zongja Town (Juun, Zongjia)
宗加镇
Zōngjiā Zhèn
ཙོང་ཇ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
tsong ja grong rdal
ᠵᠡᠭᠦᠨ ᠪᠠᠯᠭᠠᠰᠤ
Зүүн балгас
632822103
Townships
Qukoi Township (Reshui)
热水乡
Rèshuǐ Xiāng
ཆུ་ཁོལ་ཞང་།
chu khol zhang
632822200
Xang Township (Xiangjia)
香加乡
Xiāngjiā Xiāng
ᠱᠠᠩ ᠰᠤᠮᠤ
Шан сум
632822201
Guru Township (Guri, Gugri, Gouli)
沟里乡
Gōulǐ Xiāng
རྒུ་རུ་ཞང་།
rgu ru zhang
632822202
Barun Township (Balung, Balong)
巴隆乡
Bālóng Xiāng
པ་ལུང་ཞང་།
pa lung zhang
ᠪᠠᠷᠠᠭᠤᠨ ᠰᠤᠮᠤ
Баруун сум
632822203
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