Some Statistical Characteristics of Monthly and Annual Pluviometric Irregularity for the Spanish Mediterranean Coast |
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| Authors: | X Lana A Burgueño |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (ETSEIB), Barcelona, Spain, ES;(2) Department of Astronomy and Meteorology, Faculty of Physics, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ES |
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| Abstract: | Summary Seven series of monthly pluviometric amounts, sometimes exceeding recording periods of 100 years and compiled by the Instituto Nacional de Meteorología (Spain), are used to study the irregularity of the pluviometric regime along the Spanish Mediterranean coast and nearby Atlantic
coast. First of all, three statistical functions (gamma, log-normal and a combination of Poisson and gamma distributions)
and moment-ratio diagrams are used to model the monthly and annual empirical distributions of precipitation amounts, each
distribution being tested by means of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. It is noteworthy that, whereas most of the monthly cases
require the gamma distribution, the pluviometric behaviour of the summer months is well described by the Poisson-gamma distribution.
Moreover, both the log-normal and the gamma distributions satisfactorily model empirical annual amounts. Consequently, rainfall
amounts are not identically distributed along a year for each gauge tested. Second, temporal trends deduced for annual and
seasonal amounts are computed and their statistical significance evaluated. The most notable fact is that, although some linear
trends are close to 1 mm/year, their significance levels exceed the assumed threshold value and, excepting the winter season
for Barcelona, they are considered non-significant from a statistical point of view. Finally, by again using monthly and annual
amounts, three temporal irregularity indexes are computed for each pluviometric series, the temporal disparity of the rainfall
patterns of the Mediterranean region being enhanced as a result. It addition to the temporal irregularity, a change with latitude
is observed both in the parameters of the statistical distributions and the temporal irregularity indexes for the rain gauges
analysed. The two most southerly rain gauges constitute a special case in comparison with the remaining stations, because
they also receive the Atlantic influences due to their proximity to this ocean.
Received February 25, 1999/Revised August 2, 1999 |
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