Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
8th Atmospheric Sciences Symposium, İstanbul, Türkiye, 1 - 04 Kasım 2017, ss.556-566
In this study, we have run the
RClimDex software to calculate 7 precipitation extreme indices at 6 stations in
the Marmara region for the period from 1960 to 2016. These indices have shown decreasing
trends in consecutive dry days and increasing trends in annual rainfall,
rainfall intensity. The wet spell duration shows an insignificant positive
trend over the most study stations of the Marmara which are affected by the
fast rate of urbanization such as Istanbul, Bursa, and Tekirdag, while it is
decreased for the stations of Kocaeli and Çanakkale. The trend of annual total
precipitation indicator shows an insignificant positive trend all over the
Marmara region except for the Çanakkale station. Annual precipitation trend was
significant only for two urban stations of Sarier and Bursa at 90% level of
confidence. The maximum one-day and 5 days and the heavy precipitation revealed
a significant positive trend at 5% significant level for Edirne and Tekirdag by
a mean rate of 2.8 and 5.4 mm per decades and for Bursa by a mean rate of 0.6
day per decades, respectively. Therefore, a large proportion of study stations
have experienced an increase in the annual precipitation, heavy precipitation
events, although the percentage of significant trend values was very low. In
the Marmara region is expected that the rainfall events tend to change toward
shorter and more intense spells of rainfall. Overall, there is a much more
mixed pattern of changes in precipitation extreme trends at the station scales.