Response of the water balance in Greece to temperature and precipitation trends
Response of the water balance in Greece to temperature and precipitation trends
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DOI:
10.1007/s00704-010-0320-9
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发表时间:
2011-05
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
T. Mavromatis;Dimitrios Stathis
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作者:
T. Mavromatis;Dimitrios Stathis
This paper deals with the most recent trends in meteorological and hydrological variables, which include air temperature and precipitation (P), potential and actual (ET) evapotranspiration, surface runoff (RO), water recharge into the soil (R) and water loss from the soil (L). Most hydrological variables were calculated via Palmer's algorithm. For this purpose, two rank-based statistical tests (the Mann–Kendall (MK) and a change-point analysis (CPA) approach) and the basic linear regression-based model were applied on the weekly precipitation and temperature from 17 stations all over Greece, during 1961–2006. Only in winter, all variables except forR, which showed no clear signal, presented downward trends. The declining trends ofPandLin spring and summer were counterbalanced by reductions in RO (andRin the case of summer) as opposed to increases in ET. In autumn, the declining tendencies ofPandLwere offset by RO reductions andRincreases. Annually, the trends in water cycle components were analogous to that of spring, summer and autumn. The number of stations with statistically significant (at 95%) trends greatly varied with season and meteorological/hydrological variable.