Climatology
Shirin Mahdavian; Batool Zeynali; Bromand Salahi
Abstract
Climate diversity and land use / land cover change have a significant impact on hydrological regimes, especially in arid and semi-arid regions with critical water shortage problems. Therefore, estimating and evaluating climate change and land use and its consequences in each catchment is essential. This ...
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Climate diversity and land use / land cover change have a significant impact on hydrological regimes, especially in arid and semi-arid regions with critical water shortage problems. Therefore, estimating and evaluating climate change and land use and its consequences in each catchment is essential. This study examined the climate change of Kiwi Tea Basin using the data of four models of the Fifth Climate Change Assessment Report (CMIP5) under both optimistic and pessimistic scenarios (RCP8.5 and RCP4.5) using the LARS-WG6 microcirculation model. Changes in precipitation and temperature during three different periods (2040-2021, 2060-2041 and 2080-2061) compared to the base period (2019-1987) have been studied and for calibration and validation of LARS-WG6 model, observational data and output data of models with The use of F and T tests as well as RMSE, MSE, MAE and R2 indices were compared and evaluated. Based on the results of most of the models and the average of the studied models, in general, it is expected that the amount of precipitation and the minimum and maximum temperature in all the studied models will increase compared to the base period. Also, the results of evaluating land use changes with object-oriented classification showed that rangeland use with an area of 1224.18 and 1046.59 square kilometers, respectively, covered the largest area in both periods, while in 1987, residential use with an area of 3.66 square kilometers and in In 2019, water use with an area of 3.77 square kilometers had the lowest area. Also, the most modified use of rangeland use was dryland agriculture (181 square kilometers), which indicates thedestruction of rangelands
