Precipitation is important factor affecting vegetation and controlling key ecological processes. In order to quantify spatial patterns of precipitation in Chongqing tobacco planting region, China, under ArcGIS platform, three multivariate geostatistical methods including cokriging, small grid and regression kriging, coupled with auxiliary topographic factors extracted from a 1:100000 DEM were a...

Of these six precipitation methods, I, II, and VI best minimize AA interference. Despite the greater dilution involved with the unbuffered PEG method, the degree of interference is similar to that found with methods III and IV. AA is known to oxidize rapidly in the presence of oxygen, especially at high pH values (6), and this may be the mechanism by which the interference is decreased in the t...

Long-term prediction of precipitation in planning and managing water resources, especially in arid and semi-arid countries such as Iran, has a great importance. In this paper, a method for predicting long-term precipitation using weather signals and artificial neural networks is presented. For this purpose, climatic data (large-scale signals) and meteorological data (local precipitation and tem...

during february of 2005 the north of iran witnessed the development and activity of a variety of severe meteorological systems accompanied with unusual heavy precipitation, mostly snow and hail. the rate and amount of snow in the northern coastal region was so heavy that it made a new record for that region with a report of more than 3m of snow in rasht, a city located in that area. also the da...

the main objective of this paper is to study climate changes and fluctuations in the four synoptic stations in sistan and baluchistan province in the past few years and to analyze statistically and simulate and forecast for the next years (2040-2009). this study used data from the outputs of general circulation climate model echo-g with a1 scenario that are now used at the university of hamburg...

Based on a high-quality dataset of 713 daily precipitation series, changes in daily precipitation events during 1960–2013 were observed in China’s ten largest river basins. Specifically, the amount of precipitation in four categories defined by fixed thresholds and their proportion on total precipitation were analyzed on annual and seasonal time scales. Results showed annual precipitation incre...