Ebinur lake

Ebinur Lake ; Aibi Lake
	Satellite image of Lake Ebinur
Geographical location	Xinjiang ( PR China )
Tributaries	Bortala He , Jing He, Kuitun He
Drain	drainless
Location close to the shore	Jinghe , Bortala
	Data
Coordinates	44 ° 53 ' N , 83 ° 0' E Coordinates: 44 ° 53 ' N , 83 ° 0' E
Altitude above sea level	189 m
surface	520 km² (as of 2011)
Maximum depth	15 m
Catchment area	50,621 km²
particularities	salt lake

The Ebinur Lake (also: Ebinur Hu , Aibi Lake ; Chinese 艾比湖 , Pinyin Àibǐ Hú ) is a salt lake in the Mongolian Autonomous District Bortala of the Uyghur Autonomous Region Xinjiang in the People's Republic of China .

Lake Ebinur is located south of the Djungarian Gate . Nearby places are Jinghe and Bortala . The water area of the lake used to fluctuate between 800 and 1070 km². The water level has been falling steadily in recent years. In 2007 the water area shrank to 500 km². The dry lake area leads to an expansion of the desert in the area.

The lake has an extremely arid climate with average annual precipitation of 100 to 200 mm and an average annual potential evaporation of 1500 to 2000 mm. The mean temperatures are 27 ° C in July and −17 ° C in January. The lake freezes in winter. On an average of 167 days per year there are eroding winds with more than 8 m / s. The highest measured wind speed was 55 m / s in April 1977. There is only sparse vegetation around the lake. Thus, the Ebinur-Playa is a source of so-called chemical sandstorms , or white sandstorms , which carry 43 to 185 g of salts per kg of dust with a relatively high proportion of heavy metals into the surrounding areas. These dust storms cause serious air pollution, soil salinization, decline in vegetation and acceleration of ice and snow melt.

Web links

Commons : Ebinur Lake - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Abuduwaili, J., yong Zhang, Z., & qing Jiang, F. (2015). Assessment of the distribution, sources and potential ecological risk of heavy metals in the dry surface sediment of Aibi Lake in Northwest China. PloS one, 10 (3), e0120001. ( HTML )
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Article Ebinur Lake in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
↑ ^a ^b china.org.cn Lake shrinks, desert expands
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Liu, D., Abuduwaili, J., Lei, J., & Wu, G. (2011). Deposition Rate and Chemical Composition of the Aeolian Dust from a Bare Saline Playa, Ebinur Lake, Xinjiang, China. Water Air Soil Pollut, 218, 175-184. ( PDF )

[Abuduwaili_2015-1] Abuduwaili, J., yong Zhang, Z., & qing Jiang, F. (2015). Assessment of the distribution, sources and potential ecological risk of heavy metals in the dry surface sediment of Aibi Lake in Northwest China. PloS one, 10 (3), e0120001. ( HTML )

[gse-2] Article Ebinur Lake in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)

[china-3] .org.cn Lake shrinks, desert expands

[Liu_2011-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Liu, D., Abuduwaili, J., Lei, J., & Wu, G. (2011). Deposition Rate and Chemical Composition of the Aeolian Dust from a Bare Saline Playa, Ebinur Lake, Xinjiang, China. Water Air Soil Pollut, 218, 175-184. ( PDF )