Tools for Drought Mitigation in Mediterranean Regions by G. Rossi (auth.), Giuseppe Rossi, Antonino Cancelliere, Luis
By G. Rossi (auth.), Giuseppe Rossi, Antonino Cancelliere, Luis S. Pereira, Theib Oweis, Muhammad Shatanawi, Abdelaziz Zairi (eds.)
Significant vulnerability of water platforms to drought is a typical factor of water assets administration in Mediterranean areas. this can be due either to the expanding prevalence and severity of drought occasions and to the starting to be call for for municipal, vacationer, and agricultural makes use of. The INCO-DC venture entitled "A choice aid approach for Mitigation of Drought affects within the Mediterranean areas" (DSS DROUGHT) addresses this factor, contributing to a more robust administration of water provide platforms for irrigation, which represents the main consumptive area of water assets makes use of within the Mediterranean quarter. for you to boost a entire procedure towards stronger operation of irrigation structures below drought stipulations, the undertaking used to be built round the following 5 major, strictly interconnected initiatives: identity of drought features at a website and over a area Modelling irrigation administration below stipulations of water shortage Modelling operation of water provide structures below drought stipulations Integration of the constructed methodologies inside of a choice help process software program package deal Definition of standards for Drought Watch platforms The learn ended in an development of information via in-depth research of cutting edge methodologies, the advance of instruments to assist decision-makers in dealing with droughts during the implementation of the constructed approaches in software program programs, and the appliance of those instruments to the case-studies pointed out by means of companions of their countries.
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Here, three tests are considered, namely the t-Student test for linear trends, the Kendall r-test and the turning point test for randomness. Testing for the presence of a linear trend can be carried out by fitting a linear regression to the available data, using the time as independent variable. A slope coefficient significantly different than zero will indicate the presence of a linear trend. The t-Student test allows to verify statistically the difference from zero of the slope coefficient, by testing whether the correlation coefficient is significantly different than zero.
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