Hindawi Advances in Meteorology Volume 2021, Article ID 6656732, 24 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6656732 Research Article Spatiotemporal Rainfall Distribution of Soan River Basin, Pothwar Region, Pakistan Fiaz Hussain,1,2 Ghulam Nabi,3 and Ray-Shyan Wu 1 1Department of Civil Engineering, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan 2Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan 3Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan Correspondence should be addressed to Ray-Shyan Wu;
[email protected] Received 4 November 2020; Accepted 20 January 2021; Published 8 February 2021 Academic Editor: Luis Gimeno Copyright © 2021 Fiaz Hussain et al. ,is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ,is study evaluates the spatiotemporal rainfall variability over the semimountainous Soan River Basin (SRB) of sub-Himalayan Pothwar region, Pakistan. ,e temporal rainfall trend analysis of sixteen rain gauges was performed on annual basis with long- term (1981–2016) data. ,e results depicted that there is substantial year-to-year and season-to-season variability in rainfall patterns, and rainfall patterns are generally erratic in nature. ,e results highlight that most of the highland rainfall stations showed decreasing trends on annual basis. ,e central and lowland stations of the study area recorded an increasing trend of rainfall except for Talagang station. ,e average annual rainfall of the study area ranges between 492 mm and 1710 mm in lowland and high-altitude areas, respectively.