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Evaluation of wet and dry event's trend and instability based on the meteorological drought index.


ABSTRACT: A temporal imbalance in the water availability, which is consistently below average or more than average rainfall, can lead to extremely dry or wet conditions. This impacts on agricultural yields, water resources and human activities. Weather instabilities and trends of wet/dry events have not yet been explored in Pakistan. In this study, we have two-fold objectives: (1) evaluate the weather instabilities, and (2) the trend of dry/wet events of selected stations of Pakistan. To observe weather instabilities, we used Mean Marginal Hilbert Spectrum (MMHS) and Continuous Wavelet Power Spectrum (CWPS) as meteorological series are mostly non-linear and non-stationary. We used Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) for the analysis of temporal characteristics of dry/wet events. We found that all stations are facing severe weather instabilities during the short period of 5 and 10 months using MMHS method and CWPS has shown the weather instabilities during 4 to 32 months of periodicity for all stations. Ultimately, the achieved short-term weather instabilities indicated by MMHS is consistent with CWPS. In summary, these findings might be useful for water resource management and policymakers.

SUBMITTER: Shaukat MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7451013 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Evaluation of wet and dry event's trend and instability based on the meteorological drought index.

Shaukat Muhammad Haroon MH   Al-Dousari Ahmad A   Hussain Ijaz I   Faisal Muhammad M   Ismail Muhammad M   Mohamd Shoukry Alaa A   Elashkar Elsayed Elsherbini EE   Gani Showkat S  

PeerJ 20200824


A temporal imbalance in the water availability, which is consistently below average or more than average rainfall, can lead to extremely dry or wet conditions. This impacts on agricultural yields, water resources and human activities. Weather instabilities and trends of wet/dry events have not yet been explored in Pakistan. In this study, we have two-fold objectives: (1) evaluate the weather instabilities, and (2) the trend of dry/wet events of selected stations of Pakistan. To observe weather i  ...[more]

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