Modeling behaviour of wet and dry days in Iran from the perspective of Markov chains
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https://doi.org/10.54302/mausam.v71i1.8Keywords:
Dry day, Wet day, Modeling, Markov chain, IranAbstract
The current study aims to model the behaviour of wet and dry days in Iran using Markov Chain Models. To this end, data related to daily precipitation of 44 synoptic stations for a 25-years interval (1991-2015) was obtained from Iran Meteorological Organization. Then, the Markov features of dry and wet days of Iran including stationary probabilities of dry and wet days occurrence, the expected length of dry periods, the expected length of wet periods, dry-wet spells cycle, return periods for dry or wet episodes and finally, the possibility of occurrence of the continuity of dry days for 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 days were calculated for all the synoptic stations in a seasonal scale. The results showed that there is the occurrence of dry short continuities (5 and 10 days) in three seasons of autumn, winter and spring with different possibilities all over Iran. However, the possibility of occurrence of long-term dry continuities (more than 20 days) is variable in terms of season and place so that in winter, no possibility of occurrence of this type of continuities is obvious in the northern half of Iran. As in autumn and spring those are the end and beginning of long-term stability conditions of the atmosphere in the upper atmosphere levels of Iran, the possibility of periodical occurrence of 30-days dry days, particularly in the southern half of Iran increases. In addition, the expected return periods for dry days is almost steady for every part of Iran and is in the range between 1 and 2 days. However, the number of return days to a precipitation period does not follow this rule and varies for every part of Iran so that from 2.15 days in autumn to 79 days in spring is variable, pointing to the climate diversity of Iran.
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