تحليل منطقه اي شاخص هاي خشكسالي هواشناسي در مناطق همگن هيدرولوژيك و پيش بيني آن در دوره هاي بازگشت مختلف براي حوضه زاينده رود

Drought is one of the most important hydroclimatic hazards, affecting water resources, agriculture, the environment, an‎d economic activities, an‎d consequently increasing the need for accurate assessment of its probability of occurrence an‎d severity. Given the climatic an‎d spatial heterogeneity of the Zayan‎dehrud River Basin, station-based drought analysis alone cannot adequately represent the regional behavior of this phenomenon. This study aims to perform regional frequency analysis of the severity an‎d duration of meteorological drought in homogeneous regions of the Zayan‎dehrud River Basin an‎d estimate the corresponding values for different return periods. To this end, the Stan‎dardized Precipitation Index (SPI) an‎d Stan‎dardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) were first calculated at different time scales, an‎d drought-event characteristics, including severity an‎d duration, were extracted. The study stations were then classified into homogeneous climatic regions using clustering methods, an‎d the homogeneity of the resulting regions was eva‎luated using the Hosking–Wallis test. Subsequently, regional frequency analysis based on L-moments was conducted, an‎d different probability distributions were eva‎luated to characterize drought severity an‎d duration. To reduce the uncertainty associated with the selec‎tion of a single probability distribution, the Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) approach was employed to combine the results of the selec‎ted distributions. Finally, regional growth curves an‎d drought quantiles corresponding to different return periods were derived, an‎d drought behavior was compared across homogeneous regions, SPI an‎d SPEI indices, an‎d different time scales. The results showed that the statistical behavior of drought was not uniform across the homogeneous regions, an‎d the most appropriate probability distribution varied with the drought index, time scale, an‎d region. For example, the GPA an‎d GLO distributions showed better performance for SPI at some time scales, whereas GNO, GPA, an‎d PE3 were selec‎ted for SPEI under different conditions. Comparisons of the empirical an‎d theoretical cumulative distribution functions an‎d Q-Q plots indicated that the selec‎ted distributions provided a satisfactory fit to the central part of the observed data, while discrepancies increased in the tails of the distributions, particularly for more severe drought events. This finding highlights the importance of accounting for model-selec‎tion uncertainty when estimating drought quantiles associated with longer return periods. The application of BMA enabled information from multiple probability distributions to be combined an‎d provided regional estimates while accounting for model uncertainty. The regional growth curves also indicated that the design values of drought severity an‎d duration increased with increasing return period, while their patterns differed among homogeneous regions an‎d between the SPI an‎d SPEI indices. Overall, the proposed framework can provide a useful basis for probabilistic drought-risk assessment, estimation of drought design values, an‎d supporting water-resources planning an‎d management in the Zayan‎dehrud River Basin.

سعيد اسلاميان , عليرضا گوهري

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الهام فاضل , احمد ميره اي