Trends of precipitation and stream-flow in Gediz river basin, Western Turkey

Fresenius Environmental Bulletin

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 477-488

  Kukul, Yasemin S ^a   Anaç, Süer ^a   Yeşilirmak, Ercan ^b   Moraes, Jorge M ^c  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Gediz river basin; Precipitation; Stream flow; Trend analysis; Turkey

Indexed keywords

DATA; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECORD; STREAMFLOW;

EURASIA; GEDIZ BASIN; TURKEY;

EID: 34249279871     PISSN: 10184619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. N. Nicholls, G.V. Gruza, J. Jouzel, T.R. Karl, L.A. Ogallo and D.E. Parker, (1996) Observed climate variability and change. In: Houghton, J.T., Meira Filho, L.G., Callander, B.A., Haris, N., Kattenberg, A. and Maskell, K. (Eds) Climate Change 1995: The Science of Climate Change, Contribution of Working Group I to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 133-192.
2. K.D. Frederick and P.H. Gleick (1999) Water and global climate change: potential impacts on U.S. water resources. The Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Arlington, Virginia, 4-35.
3. C. Frei and C. Schär (2001) Detection probability of trends in rare events: theory and application to heavy precipitation in the Alpine region. Journal of Climate 14, 1568-1584.
4. D.P. Lettenmaier, E.F. Wood and J.R. Wallis (1994) Hydroclimatological trends in the continental United States 1948-88. Journal of Climate 7, 586-607.
5. H.F. Lins (1997) Regional streamflow regimes and hydroclimatology of the United States. Water Resources Research 33, 1655-1667.
6. H.F. Lins and J.R. Slack (1999) Streamflow trends in the United States. Geophysical Research Letters 26(2), 227-230.
7. P. Molnar and J.A. Ramirez (2001) Recent trends in precipitation and streamflow in the Rio Puerco Basin. Journal of Climate 14, 2317-2328.
8. X. Zhang, K.D. Harvey, W.D. Hogg and T.R. Yuzyk (2001) Trends in Canadian streamflow. Water Resources Research 37(4), 987-998.
9. D.H. Burn and M.A.H. Elnur (2002) Detection of hydrologic trends and variability. Journal of Hydrology 255, 107-122.
10. P.J. Pilon and S. Yue (2002) Detecting climate-related trends in streamflow data. Water Science and Technology 45, 89-104.
11. M.V. Birsan, P. Molnar, P. Burlando and M. Pfaundler (2005) Streamflow trends in Switzerland. Journal of Hydrology 314, 312-329.
12. L. Buffoni, M. Maugeri and T. Nanni (1999) Precipitation in Italy from 1833 to 1996. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 63, 33-40.
13. M. Brunetti, M. Colacino, M. Maugeri and T. Nanni (2001) Trends in the daily intensity of precipitation in Italy from 1951 to 1996. International Journal of Climatology 21, 299-316.
14. R. Tomozeiu, M. Lazzeri and C. Cacciamani (2002) Precipitation fluctuations during the winter season from 1960 to 1995 over Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 72, 221-229.
15. J.M. Moraes, G.Q. Pellegrino, M.V. Ballester, L.A. Martinelli, R.L. Victoria and A.V. Krusche (1998) Trends in Hydrological parameters of a southern Brazilian watershed and its relation to human induced changes. Water Resources Management 12, 295-311.
16. M. Türkes (1996) Spatial and temporal analysis of annual rainfall variations in Turkey. International Journal of Climatology 16, 1057-1076.
17. M. Türkes (1998) Influence of geopotential heights, cyclone frequency and southern oscillation on rainfall variations in Turkey. International Journal of Climatology 18, 649-680.
18. M. Kadioǧlu (1997) Trends in surface air temperature data over Turkey. International Journal of Climatology 17, 511-520.
19. M. Tayanç, M. Karaca and O. Yenigün (1997) Annual and seasonal air temperature trend patterns of climate changes and urbanization effects in relation to air pollutants in Turkey. Journal of Geophysical Research 102: 1909-1919.
20. E. Kahya and M.Ç. Karabörk (2001) The analysis of El Nino and La Nina signals in streamflows of Turkey. International Journal of Climatology 21, 1231-1250.
21. E. Kahya and S. Kalayci (2004) Trend analysis of streamflow in Turkey. Journal of Hydrology 289, 128-144.
22. G.W. Kite and P. Droogers (2000) Comparing evapotranspiration estimates from satellites, hydrological models and field data. Journal of Hydrology 229, 3-18.
23. T. Partal and E. Kahya (2005) Trend analysis in Turkish precipitation data. Hydrological Processes (in press).
24. M. Kadioǧlu and L. Şaylan (2001) Trends of growing degree-days in Turkey. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 126, 83-96.
25. H.C.S. Thom (1966) Some methods of climatological analysis. WMO Technical Note 143, Geneva, p. 192.
26. J.R. Lanzante (1996) Resistant, robust and non-parametric techniques for the analysis of climate data: theory and examples, including applications to historical radiosonde station data. International Journal of Climatology 16, 1197-1226.
27. M. De Luís, J. Raventós, J.C. Gonzáles-Hidalgo, J.R. Sánchez and J. Cortina (2000) Spatial analysis of rainfall trends in the region of valencia (east Spain). International Journal of Climatology 20, 1451-1469.
28. R. Sneyers (1975) Sur l'analyse statistique des séries d' observations. Note Technique No. 143, OMM-No. 415, Genève, 192 p.
29. A.N. Pettitt (1979) A non-parametric approach to the change-point problem. Applied Statistics 28, 126-135.
30. Ch. Goosens and A. Berger (1986) Annual and seasonal climatic variations over the Northern Hemisphere and Europe during the last century. Annales Geophysicae B, 385-400.
31. G.S. Cavadias (1992) A survey of current approaches to modeling of hydrological time-series with respect to climate variability and change. World Meteorological Organization, Tech. Rep. WCASP-23 TD-534,65 pp.
32. A. Robson, A. Bardossy, D. Jones and Z.W. Kundzewicz (2000) Statistical methods for testing for change. In: Kundzewicz, Z.W. and Robson, A. (Eds) Detecting trend and other changes in hydrological data. World Climate Programme Data and Monitoring, WCDMP-45, WMO/TD No. 1013, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, 49-85.
33. C.D. Schönwiese and J. Rapp (1997) Climate trend Atlas of Europe based on observations 1891-1990. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
34. C.M. Goodess and P.D. Jones (2002) Links between circulation and changes in the characteristics of Iberian rainfall. International Journal of Climatology 22, 1593-1615.
35. P. Maheras, K. Tolika, Chr. Anagnostopoulou, M. Vafiadis, I. Patrikas and H. Flocas (2004) On the relationships between circulation types and changes in rainfall variability in Greece. International Journal of Climatology 24, 1695-1712.
36. M. Türkes and E. Erlat (2003) Precipitation changes and variability in Turkey linked to the North Atlantic Oscillation during the period 1930-2000. International Journal of Climatology 23, 1771-1796.
37. J.W. Hurrell (1995) Decadal trends in the North Atlantic oscillation and relationships to regional temperature and precipitation. Science 269, 676-679.
38. M. Türkes, U.M. Sümer and İ. Demir (2002) Re-evaluation of trends and changes in mean, maximum and minimum temperatures of Turkey for the period 1929-1999. International Journal of Climatology 22, 947-977.
39. Anonymous (2004). Impacts of Europe's Changing Climate, European Environment Agency (EEA) Report, No:2/2004.
40. R.M. Trigo, D. Pozo-Vazquez, T.J. Osborn, Y. Castro-Diez, S. Gamiz-Fortis and M.J. Estaban-Parra (2004) North Atlantic Oscillation influence on precipitation, river flow and water resources in the Iberian Peninsula. International Journal of Climatology 24, 925-944.
41. H.M. Cullen, A. Kaplan, P.A. Arkin and P.B. deMenocal (2002) Impact of the North Atlantic Oscillation on Middle Eastern climate and streamflow. Climatic Change 55, 315-338.
42. H.M. Cullen and P.B. deMenocal (2000) North Atlantic influence on Tigris-Euphrates streamflow. International Journal of Climatology 20, 853-863.