Assessing Spatiotemporal Trends of Long Term Temperature over Kharun
Watershed Chhattisgarh, India
Abstract
The study and investigation of temperature trends is quite essential for
a country like India, whose economy is largely dependent on agriculture
as temperature greatly influences rainfall and evapotranspiration
processes. Temperature along with other meteorological parameters
largely affect the water availability over a region. Almost 83% water
is used in agriculture, 12% is consumed by industries and merely 5% is
used for domestic purposes. In the present study, long term trend with
temperature data of 64 years (1951-2014) was analyzed for maximum,
minimum and mean temperature values. After removal of all significant
correlation in the data, Mann-Kendall test (MK) was applied. To identify
the trends Sen’s slope estimator was used and the overall percent change
for the temperature over the study area was determined. To interpolate
the spatial pattern an inverse distance weighted interpolation method
(IDW) was used using ArcGIS 10.2.2. The analysis showed a significant
increase in the trend of temperature for annual and seasonal series
during the entire period over the study area i.e. Kharun watershed,
Chhattisgarh, India. These results will be quite helpful and play an
important role in managing water resources in the basin and will be
useful for future planning of irrigation and agricultural practices.