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Journal of Arid Land  2025, Vol. 17 Issue (12): 1694-1718    DOI: 10.1007/s40333-025-0113-8     CSTR: 32276.14.JAL.02501138
Research article     
Drought risk assessment and future scenario prediction in agricultural cropping zones of China
LIU Xiaohong1, LIU Chunhui2, FAN Jiejie1, QIU Chunxia1,*()
1College of Geomatics, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710054, China
2Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria (Ministry of Education), Carbon Neutrality Interdisciplinary Science Centre, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
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Abstract  

With ongoing global climate change, drought has become the primary threat constraining food security in China. Traditional assessment frameworks based on administrative boundaries or macro-climatic zoning overlook variation in vulnerability affected by key agronomic practices, such as crop phenology and cropping systems, thereby limiting their accuracy. To address this research gap, this study developed and validated a novel drought risk assessment framework based on agricultural cropping zones (single-, double-, and triple-cropping zones). The framework coupled a Geographical and Temporal Neural Network Weighted Regression (GTNNWR) model for forecasting future crop vegetation dynamics with the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) to assess drought risk under historical (2001-2020) and projected future (2021-2100) scenarios. The GTNNWR model achieved R2 values ranging from 0.72 to 0.82 and RMSE values between 0.11 and 0.14 for NDVI prediction, significantly outperforming conventional models. Historical drought risk assessment revealed that drought events were most frequent during summer and concentrated in single-cropping and double-cropping zones. Future projections indicate a substantial intensification of drought risk. Under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP)126 scenario, drought risk is projected to increase in the triple-cropping zones of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Plain. Under the SSP245 scenario, the frequency of spring and winter droughts is anticipated to rise markedly. Under the SSP585 scenario, drought intensity is projected to intensify in central-eastern single-cropping zones and southwestern double-cropping zones. This assessment framework based on agricultural cropping zones can precisely identify drought risks and facilitate adaptation in agricultural management, such as optimizing irrigation systems and adjusting crop structures.



Key wordsclimate change      agricultural cropping zone      Geographical and Temporal Neural Network Weighted Regression (GTNNWR) model      Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI)      run theory      drought risk assessment     
Received: 24 June 2025      Published: 31 December 2025
Corresponding Authors: *QIU Chunxia (E-mail: 000358@xust.edu.cn)
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LIU Xiaohong, LIU Chunhui, FAN Jiejie, QIU Chunxia. Drought risk assessment and future scenario prediction in agricultural cropping zones of China. Journal of Arid Land, 2025, 17(12): 1694-1718.

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Fig. 1 Overview of the study area. Note that the map is based on the standard map (GS(2024)0650) of the National Platform for Common GeoSpatial Infromation Services (https://cloudcenter.tianditu.gov.cn/) marked by the Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China, and the boundary of base map has not been modified.
Zoning system Zoning indicator Agricultural significance
AAT0 (℃) EMT (℃) Period of 20.0℃ termination
Single-cropping <4000-4200 < -20.0 Early August-early September One growing season per year
Double-cropping >4000-4200 > -20.0 Early September-late September Two growing seasons per year
Triple-cropping >5900-6100 > -20.0 Late September-early November Three growing seasons per year
Table 1 Indicator for the classification of different agricultural cropping zones in China
Data type Variable Data source Spatial
resolution
Temporal
resolution
Period
Historical NDVI data NDVI United States Golf Association (https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/) 1 km Month 2001-2020
Historical climate data Relative humidity National Tibetan Plateau/Third Pole Environment Data Center (http://data.tpdc.ac.cn/) 0.100° Month 2001-2020
Surface solar radiation
Surface wind speed
Potential evapotranspiration 0.0083333°
Precipitation
Temperature
CMIP6 data (BCC-CSM2-MR) Relative humidity Copernicus Climate Change Service (https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/) 1.1250000° Month 2021-2100
Precipitation
Temperature
Potential evapotranspiration
Table 2 Datasets used in this study
Fig. 2 Heat map of Pearson correlation coefficients between NDVI and multiple meteorological factors. NDVI, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index; r, correlation coefficient; **, significance at P<0.01 level.
Fig. 3 Workflow of the drought risk assessment in this study. GTNNWR, Geographically and Temporally Neural Network Weighted Regression; TR, time resolution; SR, spatial resolution; CMIP6, Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6; SPEI, Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index.
Fig. 4 Schematic diagram of GTNNWR model solution process. The red dashed box is the Spatio-temporal Proximity Neural Network (STPNN), and the blue dashed box is the Spatio-temporal Weighted Neural Network (STWNN). OLR, Ordinary Linear Regression; Pi, any point in space-time requiring estimation; dS ij, the spatial distance between the estimated point and all other points in the training dataset; dT ij, the temporal distance between the estimated point and all other points in the training dataset; h, neural network hidden layer nodes; q and m, different hidden layer indices in STPNN; dST ij, the temporal and spatial distance between the estimated point and all other points in the training dataset; ωip, spatio-temporal non-stationary weights corresponding to the estimated points; βp, global regression coefficients estimated by the OLR model; xip, the independent variable corresponding to the estimated point (relative humidity, precipitation, temperature, and potential evapotranspiration); $\hat{y}_{i}$, the final estimated value of the model.
Fig. 5 Drought event identification based on the three-threshold run theory method. Black shading area indicates a one-month interval between two consecutive drought events; grid shading area denotes events flagged as potential droughts following preliminary screening. R0, the threshold for merging adjacent drought events; R1, the threshold for drought onset; R2, the threshold for excluding minor drought events; a, b, c, d, e, and f denote the identified candidate drought events; g denotes that two adjacent drought events were separated by only one month, and the SPEI value during the intervening month was below R0; h denotes that two adjacent drought events were separated by only one month, but the SPEI value during the intervening month was above R0.
Fig. 6 Performance of GTNNWR (a1-a4), eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) (b1-b4), Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) (c1-c4), and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) (d1-d4) models in predicting NDVI for four seasons. The black dashed line represents the ideal 1:1 reference line, while the red solid line denotes the regression fit line between the predicted NDVI and the actual NDVI.
Fig. 7 Temporal trend in annual mean NDVI in agricultural cropping zones of China. (a), historical trends from 2001 to 2020; (b-d), projected future trends from 2021 to 2100 for the (b) single-, (c) double-, and (d) triple-cropping zones under three shared socioeconomic pathway (SSP) scenarios.
Fig. 8 Spatial variation in annual mean NDVI in different cropping zones in China from 2001 to 2020 (a) and 2021-2100 under the SSP126 (b1-b4), SSP245 (c1-c4), and SSP585 (d1-d4) scenarios
Fig. 9 Spatio-temporal analysis of the correlation between monthly NDVI and SPEI across multiple time scales from 2001 to 2020. (a-e), spatial distribution of the correlation between SPEI-1 (a), SPEI-3 (b), SPEI-6 (c), SPEI-9 (d), and SPEI-12 (e) and monthly NDVI; (f), density distribution of correlation coefficient at different time scales. Black dots in Figure 9a-e indicate significant correlations at P<0.05 level, and r denotes the correlation coefficient.
Fig. 10 Spatial distribution of the number (a1-a4), average duration (b1-b4), and average intensity (c1-c4) of drought events in four seasons from 2001 to 2020
Fig. 11 Spatial distribution of the number of drought events in different seasons and agricultural cropping zones under the SSP126 (a1-a16), SSP245 (b1-b16), and SSP585 (c1-c16) scenarios from 2021 to 2100
Fig. 12 Spatial distribution of the average duration of drought events in different seasons and agricultural cropping zones under the SSP126 (a1-a16), SSP245 (b1-b16), and SSP585 (c1-c16) scenarios from 2021 to 2100
Fig. 13 Spatial distribution of the average intensity of drought events in different seasons and agricultural cropping zones under the SSP126 (a1-a16), SSP245 (b1-b16), and SSP585 (c1-c16) scenarios from 2021 to 2100
Fig. 14 Spatial distribution of the correlation between the annual mean NDVI value of China's agricultural zones and SPEI-12 under the SSP126 (a1-a4), SSP245 (b1-b4), and SSP585 (c1-c4) scenarios from 2021 to 2100. Black dots indicate significant correlations at P<0.05 level.
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