World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2020
Analysis of Changes in Rainfall Magnitude over Haridwar District, India
Publication: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2020: Groundwater, Sustainability, Hydro-Climate/Climate Change, and Environmental Engineering
ABSTRACT
Analysis of changes in rainfall magnitudes is essential to obtain the temporal variation for a particular parameter. It is performed on a data set for a longer duration to quantify the variation. This paper presents an analysis of variation in rainfall at annual scale for Haridwar District, Uttarakhand, India. The monthly precipitation data is collected from the India Water Portal for the period of 1901–2002. For each individual year, the percentage change is obtained with respect to the previous year and also with respect to the long-term mean annual rainfall, for the whole period under investigation. Further, the rainfall in various decades is compared. From the results, it is found that almost 85% of the annual rainfall occurs during four months of monsoon season i.e., June, July, August, and September. The district is subjected to frequent flickering of annual rainfall. During the first five decades, the decadal average rainfall is found to be nearly same. However, anomalous behavior in annual rainfall is observed for post-1950 periods. The trend of rainfall was increasing from 1950 to 1980, whereas the last two decades of the twentieth century witnessed a sharp decrease in rainfall. Therefore, the hydro-meteorological studies with an inherent assumption of stationarity should be carried out carefully over the study area. This study may be helpful for better water resources planning and management over the district.
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World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2020: Groundwater, Sustainability, Hydro-Climate/Climate Change, and Environmental Engineering
Pages: 135 - 141
Editors: Sajjad Ahmad, Ph.D., and Regan Murray, Ph.D.
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8296-4
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