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| Titel |
Homogeneity of monthly precipitation series from 1932 to 2010 in the Souss Massa Region-Morocco |
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Houria Abahous, Josyane Ronchail, Abdelfattah Sifeddine, Lahcen Kenny, Lhoussaine Bouchaou |
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EGU General Assembly 2017
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en
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In: GRA - Volume 19 (2017) |
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250153408
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2017-18381.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Water resources are vulnerable to precipitation fluctuations, especially in arid area such as the Souss-Massa region. Therefore, the analysis and the simulation of the regional rainfall characteristics at decadal scale are of great importance. The availability of long-term time series is often limited by their quality. A network of local meteorological stations recording monthly precipitations from 1932 to 2010 is provided by the Hydraulic basin of Souss Massa Agency. A dataset of 19 selected stations is undergoing an interative process of quality control and homogeneity assessment using ProclimDB/Anclim and Homer softwares. Suspicious monthly data are identified with a combination of criterions. We analyse the standardized precipitation index to better distinguish real climate events from erroneous data in the analyzed series. Statistically significant annual change-points are detected with both absolute and relative methods by using a criterion of validation. The temporal distribution of outliers shows an annual cycle and a decrease of their occurence since the eighties. We also assess the year of 1973 as a change point related to climate in Western High Atlas Mountains stations. |
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