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Rainfall Analysis for Hyderabad and Nawabshah, Sindh, Pakistan Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research Vol. 10 , No. 6, 20 20 , 6597 -6602 6597 Rainfall Analysis for Hyderabad and Nawabshah, Sindh, Pakistan Ali Asghar Mahessar Abdul Latif Qureshi Sindh Barrages Improvement Project U.S.-Pakistan Centers for Advanced Studies in Water Sindh Irrigation Department Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Karachi, Sindh Pakistan Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan Bushra Sadiqui Shafi Muhammad Kori Institute of Water Resources Engineering and Management Department of Civil Engineering Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan Kishan Chand Mukwana Abdul Sami Qureshi Environmental and Energy Department Mehran University of Engineering and Technology QUEST SZAB Campus Nawabshah, Pakistan Khairpur Mirs, Sindh Pakistan Khalifa Qasim Leghari Department of Civil Engineering Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan Abstract -The climatic change has a visible impact in recent 3, 5, and 10 years for one-day annual maximum rainfall for both abnormal weather events, such as Pakistan’s intensification of the cities revealed that the rainfall values for Hyderabad are higher. hydrological cycle with changing precipitation pattern, water availability periods, and weather-induced natural disasters. The Keywords-rainfall; Hyderabad; Nawabshah; STATISTICA; GIS rainfall flush flood of 2010 alone displaced millionσ of people and damaged properties in just one stroke. The next year, the I. INTRODUCTION shocking rainfall flood of 2011 in Sindh, only underscored the The equilibrium of heat absorption and reflection from the enormity of the challenge posed by climate change. The current earth is of paramount importance. Changes in global paper presents the analysis carried out for one-day annual temperature delicate heat unbalance and are the crucial factor maximum rainfall for Hyderabad and Nawabshah cities, Sindh, for climate change. The overexploitation of resources has Pakistan for the period from 1961 to 2011 using STATISTICA modified the earth and its atmosphere in a way that alters the Software for interpolating and forecasting the rainfall time series. climate of the globe. Climate variables such as precipitation, The maximum values of observed rainfall were 250.70mm and 256.30mm, while the minimum values were 3.0mm and 0.0mm temperature, humidity, and wind reach extreme conditions, for Hyderabad and Nawabshah respectively, while the mean of hence, rainfall occurs abnormally [1-2]. Any change in global fifty-one (51) years of rainfall data is 51.96mm and 45.3 mm and climate has massive impacts to humanity and the environment the computed standard deviations were 42.693mm and 43.896mm [3]. Rainfall variability rests on the movement of the respectively. The difference between the mean and standard atmosphere and its characteristics which are described as deviation of one-day maximum rainfall is small, which showed weather. Scientists have been trying to characterize the weather the consistency of the data. The polynomial trend curved lines for several decades [4]. Water is a basic substance, required for exhibited fluctuations in the rainfall data, which indicates a the survival of life. Normal precipitation is a part of the continual change in rainfall behavior. Hence, the rainfall data are continuous process of the hydrologic cycle. The summer subjected to a moving mean smoothing with a duration shorter rainfall concentrates monsoon breaths formed from the bay of than 3 years. Through these trends, the future one-day annual Bengal and arriving Pakistan from India. Another mechanism maximum rainfall can be predicted. The correlation of one-day of monsoon precipitation is the flow of moisture from the annual maximum rainfall between Hyderabad and Nawabshah Arabian Sea. These phenomena strengthen the rainfall process cities had R2 of 0.973. The computed results of return periods of and produce erratic intensity rainfalls in a short time [5, 6]. The seasonal unusual rainfall of July to September, 2011 over Corresponding author: A. A. Mahessar ([email protected]) www.etasr.com Mahessar et al.: Rainfall Analysis for Hyderabad and Nawabshah, Sindh, Pakistan Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research Vol. 10 , No. 6, 20 20 , 6597 -6602 6598 Pakistan, was 72% above normal (1961 to 1990) and is ranked provides the user with a graphical interface, the tools to as the fifth monsoon rainfall during the last 51 years. This perform simple analyses such as mean, mode, median, range, seasonal rainfall was about 248% above the normal in Sindh trends, and moving mean, all types of distributions and tests province [7]. Based on 30 years of meteorological data, like t, F, Z, etc., deviation, regression, ANOVA, etc. It also Pakistan can be climatically divided into eight zones [8]. creates two and three dimensional graphical displays of data. Nawabshah comes in a zone of hot long summers and warm STATISTICA has more than 14,000 statistics functions. The short winters, whereas Hyderabad comes in the zone of hot chronological daily maximum rainfall (1961-2011) data for long summers and mild short winters [9]. Extraordinary heavy Hyderabad and Nawabshah are shown in Figures 2 and 3, rainfall and cloud burst alarm about the change in climate. It is which do not show a definite trend. quite clear that the cities under study (i.e. Hyderabad and Nawabshah) are under unreliable rainfall zones, which shows an alarming change in climate which needs to be studied [10]. 300 250 II. STUDY AREA AND CLIMATIC CONDITIONS 200 The two studied cities (Hyderabad and Nawabshah) are 150 located at 25°22′45″N latitude and 68°22′06″E longitude and at (mm) 26°15′00″N latitude and 68°25′25″E longitude respectively. 100 They are heavily populated, with no rainwater disposal drainage system, and are located at the center of Sindh, on the 50 left side of river Indus [11-13]. Climatically, these cities are Rainfall Annual Maximum One-day 0 situated in tropical and semi-tropical condition with the 1955 1965 1975 1985 1995 2005 2015 Year maximum and minimum temperatures varying from 46°C, to 02°C, in Hyderabad and from 52°C, to 0°C, in Nawabshah. The Fig. 2. One-day annual maximum rainfall (1961-2011) for Hyderabad. mean monthly maximum temperature in the summer season is about 43 oC to 44 o C, while during the winter, the minimum temperature is about 7 oC. Western disturbances, dust storms, 300 south east monsoon, and continental air are the main factors 250 influencing the weather. From the hydrological perspective, the 200 study areas belong to the arid and semi-arid region type, with a 150 low precipitation average of 100mm and brackish and saline (mm) groundwater quality. 100 50 One-day Annual Maximum Rainfall Rainfall AnnualMaximum One-day 0 1955 1965 1975 1985 1995 2005 2015 Year Fig. 3. One-day annual maximum rainfall (1961-2011) for Nawabshah. The research objective is to study the time series characteristics of one day annual maximum rainfall at Hyderabad and Nawabshah through STATISTICA for smoothing, interpolating, modeling, and future forecasting. IV. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION A. Rainfall Data Collection Figures 4 and 5 display the representation outputs using STATISTICA in terms of deviation of one-day annual Fig. 1. The map shows the heavy rainfalls in Sindh, Paksitan (© Sindh maximum rainfall of Hyderabad and Nawabshah respectively Irrigation and Drainage Authority, Hyderabad, Sindh). from their respective mean rainfall value. These Figures exhibit that the maximum positive deviation is about 200 and more III. DATA COLLECTION than 200mm for Hyderabad and Nawabshah respectively, The research study is based on the annual daily maximum whereas the maximum negative deviation is less than 50mm. rainfall for Hyderabad and Nawabshah. In this regard, the B. Basic Statistical Parameters required data from a period from 1961 to 2011 were collected from Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) for statistical The basic statistical parameters maximum, minimum, analysis [9]. Time series analysis is a time-consuming process, mean, mode, median standard deviation, and Coefficient of so the statistical software STATISTICA was utilized to do the Variance (CV) for the collected data series are described in task with minimum computing cost [14-16]. It is a spread Table I. sheet-based statistical analysis software package, which www.etasr.com Mahessar et al.: Rainfall Analysis for Hyderabad and Nawabshah, Sindh, Pakistan Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research Vol. 10 , No. 6, 20 20 , 6597 -6602 6599 Mean Deviation of Annual Maximum Rainfall at that during the third period (1991-2005) there were droughts in Hyderabad Sindh. 200 TABLE II. TREND ANALYSIS IN TERMS OF MEAN FOR VARIOUS PERIODS OF THE STUDY AREA 150 Study Period-I Period-II Period-III Period-IV Description 1961 -1975 1976 -1990 1991 -2005 2006 -2011 100 area Mean 52.23 57.51 37.45 73.70 Period-I and 50 5.27 II Rainfall (mm) Rainfall Period-II and 0 -20.05 III Hyderabad Period-III -50 mean Diff of 36.25 and IV 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 Mean 46.64 45.73 37.90 59.53 Year Period-I and -0.91 Fig. 4. Mean deviation analysis of one-day annual maximum rainfall at II Period-II and Hyderabad. -7.83 III Nawabshah Period-III Mean Deviation of Annual Maximum Rainfall at meanDiff of 21.63 and IV Nawabshah Hyderabad Nawabshah 200 80 150 60 100 50 40 Rainfall (mm) 0 20 -50 maximum Rainfall (mm) 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980
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