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Spatio-temporal analysis of daily, seasonal and annual precipitation concentration in Jharkhand state, India

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Nowadays, climate change and global warming have led to changes in the distribution of precipitation, which affect on the availability of water resources. Therefore, investigating the temporal and spatial variations of precipitation in the previous period is highly important in the future planning for flood control and local management of water resources. Considering the importance of this issue, in the present study, the precipitation concentration indices have been used for analysing precipitation changes at daily, seasonal, and annual time scales in the period of 1971 to 2011 over the Jharkhand state, India. Also, Modified Mann–Kendall test has used to study the trend of precipitation concentration indices in annual and seasonal time scales. The result shows a highly irregular and non-uniform distribution in the annual scale. For the seasonal scale an irregular and non-uniform distribution has been also observed, although the summer had a better situation than other seasons. For daily scale, none of the stations had a regular concentration and in the northeast and southern parts of the study area, there have been more irregularities. Furthermore, the results of investigating annual precipitation trend showed a combination of increasing and decreasing trend over the study area. The results of this study can be applied to manage water supplies, drainage projects, construct collection structures of urban flood, develop plans to prevent soil erosion, and designing appropriate plans to cope with drought conditions.

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  1. Department of Hydrology and Water Resource, Faculty of Water Sciences Engineering, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, 6135783135, Iran

    Reza Zamani & Farshad Ahmadi

  2. Department of Water Engineering, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, Iran

    Rasoul Mirabbasi

  3. Department of Sciences and Water Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Birjand University, Birjand, Iran

    Mohammad Nazeri

  4. Department of Water Resources Development and Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India

    Sarita Gajbhiye Meshram

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Zamani, R., Mirabbasi, R., Nazeri, M. et al. Spatio-temporal analysis of daily, seasonal and annual precipitation concentration in Jharkhand state, India. Stoch Environ Res Risk Assess 32, 1085–1097 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-017-1447-3

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