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Analysis of monthly average precipitation of Wadi Ouahrane basin in Algeria by using the ITRA, ITPAM, and TPS methods

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Precipitation is one of the most significant components for the basin’s hydrological cycle. Numerous features of a basin’s water circulation may be affected by the chronological, geographical, and seasonal fluctuation of precipitation. It could be an important factor that influences hydrometeorological phenomena including floods and droughts. In this research, the innovative trend risk analysis (ITRA), innovative trend pivot analysis (ITPAM), and trend polygon star (TPS) methodologies of visualizing precipitation data are used to detect precipitation changes at six stations in Algeria’s Wadi Ouahrane basin from 1972 to 2018. ITRA graphs show the direction of the precipitation trend (increasing–decreasing) and the trend risk class. Disparities in the polygons generated by the arithmetic mean and standard deviation ITPAM graphs demonstrate variations in precipitation seasonally and in the seasonal precipitation trends (increasing or decreasing) between sites. The TPS maps depict monthly variations in precipitation and highlight the autumn and spring transitions between the dry and wet seasons.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank the peer reviewers who improved this manuscript. The authors also thank the ANRH agency for the collected data and the General Directorate of Scientific Research and Technological Development of Algeria (DGRSDT).

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  1. Laboratory of Water & Environment, Faculty of Nature and Life Sciences, University Hassiba Benbouali of Chlef, Ouled Fares, 02180, Chlef, P.B 78C, Algeria

    Mohammed Achite

  2. National Higher School of Agronomy, ENSA, 16200, Algiers, Algeria

    Mohammed Achite & Tarek Hartani

  3. Faculty of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, Sakarya University of Applied Sciences, Sakarya, 54187, Turkey

    Gokmen Ceribasi & Ahmet Iyad Ceyhunlu

  4. Department of Sanitary Engineering and Water Management, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Mickiewicza 24/28 Street, 30-059, Krakow, Poland

    Andrzej Wałęga

  5. Construction and Project Management Research Institute, Housing and Building National Research Centre, Giza, 12311, Egypt

    Nehal Elshaboury

  6. Department of Civil Engineering, the City College of New York, New York, 10031, USA

    Nir Krakauer

  7. Morsli Abdellah Tipaza University Center, Oued Merzoug, 42000, Tipaza, Algeria

    Tarek Hartani

  8. Institute for Agriculture and Forest Systems in the Mediterranean (CNR-ISAFOM), National Research Council of Italy, Via Cavour 4/6, 87036, Rende, CS, Italy

    Tommaso Caloiero

  9. School of Mathematics and Statistics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China

    Sajid Gul

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Achite, M., Ceribasi, G., Wałęga, A. et al. Analysis of monthly average precipitation of Wadi Ouahrane basin in Algeria by using the ITRA, ITPAM, and TPS methods. Environ Monit Assess 195, 606 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-023-11236-3

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