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Trend detection in seasonal data: From hydrology to water resources

Trend detection in seasonal data: From hydrology to water resources
Trend detection in seasonal data: From hydrology to water resources

In this paper we investigate the relationship between hydro-climatic trends and their impacts on water resources at the basin scale, focusing on a catchment on the Italian and Swiss Alps in the period 1974-2010. More generally, we address the topic of trend detection in environmental time series combining novel and traditional tools in order to simultaneously tackle the issue of seasonality and interannual variability, which usually characterize natural processes. The paper's contribution is twofold. First, we propose a novel tool to be applied in Exploratory Data Analysis, named MASH (Moving Average over Shifting Horizon). It allows to simultaneously investigate the seasonality in the data and filter out the effects of interannual variability, thus facilitating trend detection. We describe how to combine the MASH with statistical trend detection tests, like the Mann-Kendall test, the Seasonal Kendall test, and the Linear Regression test, and Sen's method, to quantify the trends occurring in different seasons. Second, we estimate the impacts of hydrological changes in terms of water resources and we discuss their relevance from the water resources management perspective. We define and simulate a set of indicators of performances, resilience, reliability, and vulnerability, so to assess the ability of the water resources systems to absorb changes in the hydrological patterns. The analysis reveals that, in the case study area, statistically significant trends in hydro-climatic records have been undergoing in the last decades, although they have had limited impacts on water resources.

Alpine catchments, Seasonality, Stationarity, Streamflow, Trend detection, Water resources
0022-1694
171-179
Anghileri, Daniela
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Pianosi, Francesca
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Soncini-Sessa, Rodolfo
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Anghileri, Daniela
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Pianosi, Francesca
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Soncini-Sessa, Rodolfo
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Anghileri, Daniela, Pianosi, Francesca and Soncini-Sessa, Rodolfo (2014) Trend detection in seasonal data: From hydrology to water resources. Journal of Hydrology, 511, 171-179. (doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.01.022).

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In this paper we investigate the relationship between hydro-climatic trends and their impacts on water resources at the basin scale, focusing on a catchment on the Italian and Swiss Alps in the period 1974-2010. More generally, we address the topic of trend detection in environmental time series combining novel and traditional tools in order to simultaneously tackle the issue of seasonality and interannual variability, which usually characterize natural processes. The paper's contribution is twofold. First, we propose a novel tool to be applied in Exploratory Data Analysis, named MASH (Moving Average over Shifting Horizon). It allows to simultaneously investigate the seasonality in the data and filter out the effects of interannual variability, thus facilitating trend detection. We describe how to combine the MASH with statistical trend detection tests, like the Mann-Kendall test, the Seasonal Kendall test, and the Linear Regression test, and Sen's method, to quantify the trends occurring in different seasons. Second, we estimate the impacts of hydrological changes in terms of water resources and we discuss their relevance from the water resources management perspective. We define and simulate a set of indicators of performances, resilience, reliability, and vulnerability, so to assess the ability of the water resources systems to absorb changes in the hydrological patterns. The analysis reveals that, in the case study area, statistically significant trends in hydro-climatic records have been undergoing in the last decades, although they have had limited impacts on water resources.

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Accepted/In Press date: 11 January 2014
e-pub ahead of print date: 20 January 2014
Published date: 16 April 2014
Keywords: Alpine catchments, Seasonality, Stationarity, Streamflow, Trend detection, Water resources

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Local EPrints ID: 425840
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/425840
ISSN: 0022-1694
PURE UUID: 7ac93c2f-fd30-4ee6-87a4-71e5e72c8e4b
ORCID for Daniela Anghileri: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6220-8593

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Date deposited: 05 Nov 2018 17:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 04:38

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Author: Francesca Pianosi
Author: Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa

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