Climate change impact on meteorological droughts in watershed scale (case study: southwestern Iran)

  • Authors

    • Alireza Nikbakht Shahbazi Department of Water Resources, College of Agriculture, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz
    2014-12-09
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v4i1.3782
  • Climate Change Impact, Drought Severity, Drought Frequency, Karoon3 Watershed.

  • Abstract

    Drought is one of the major natural disasters in the world which has a lot of social and economic impacts. There are various factors that affect climate changes; the investigation of this incident is also sensitive. Climate scenarios of future climate change studies and investigation of efficient methods for investigating these events on drought should be assumed. This study intends to investigate climate change impacts on drought in Karoon3 watershed in the future. For this purpose, the atmospheric general circulation models (GCM) data under Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenarios should be investigated. In this study, watershed drought under climate change impacts will be simulated in future periods (2011 to 2099). In this research standard precipitation index (SPI) was calculated using mean monthly precipitation data in Karoon3 watershed. SPI was calculated in 6, 12 and 24 months periods. Statistical analysis on daily precipitation and minimum and maximum daily temperature was performed. To determine the feasibility of future periods meteorological data production of LRAS-WG5 model, calibration and verification was performed for the base year (1980-2007). Meteorological data simulation for future periods under General Circulation Models and climate change IPCC scenarios was performed and then the drought status using SPI under climate change effects analyzed. Results showed that differences between monthly maximum and minimum temperature will decrease under climate change and spring precipitation shall increase while summer and autumn rainfall shall decrease. The most increase of precipitation will take place in winter and in December. Normal and wet SPI category is more frequent in B1 and A2 emissions scenarios than A1B. Wet years increases in the study area during 2011-2030 period and the more continuous drought years gradually increases during 2046-2065 period, the more severe and frequent drought will occur during the 2080-2099 period.

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    Nikbakht Shahbazi, A. (2014). Climate change impact on meteorological droughts in watershed scale (case study: southwestern Iran). International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 4(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v4i1.3782

    Received date: 2014-11-01

    Accepted date: 2014-11-24

    Published date: 2014-12-09