Rainfall forecasting in arid regions in response to climate change using ARIMA and remote sensing

Faculty Engineering Year: 2024
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Journal: Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk Taylor & francis Volume: 15
Keywords : Rainfall forecasting , arid regions , response , climate    
Abstract:
Climate changes in increasing at alarming rates which caused outward changes in the hydrological cycle parameters such as temperature and precipitation. The spatial and temporal distribution of rainfall has changed all over the world. Rainfall forecasting is considered an important tool that could help decisionmakers for managing water resources. Syria is facing several drought events that may affect its water resources. Due to the lack of available rainfall data from land stations in Syria after the civil war started in 2010 till now, one of the aims of this study is to depend on rainfall data from satellite images after correcting these data using the available land stations data. This study also aims to assess rainfall trends in Syria due to climate change and forecasting rainfall. The rainfall data were collected from 71 land stations from 1991 to 2009. Satellite images from Climate Data Record (CDR) were downloaded from 1983 to 2020 and ArcMap was used to extract rainfall data at locations of land stations. The extracted rainfall data from satellite images were corrected by land stations data from 1991 to 2009. Then Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) program with Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models are used to fit and forecasting rainfall in Syria. The rainfall trends at the studied stations were analyzed for 40 years (1983–2022) and a forecast of one year is conducted. The results showed decreasing trends at all the stations that lead to a decrease the quantity of water received every year which could affect the water resources in Syria and agriculture and food security will be also affected. The results are consistent with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports that concluded a decrease in rainfall at southern and eastern Mediterranean regions. The results of the current study could help in the management of water resources in Syria and forecasting using ARIMA is recommended for rainfall predictions.
   
     
 
       

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