Abstract
Climate change and global warming are often considered the main reason for water scarcity in Iran. However, there is little evidence showing that the arid/wet regions get drier/wetter due to climate change. Some researchers believe that parts of water challenges in Iran arise from bad governance and mismanagement of water resources. To address the role of climate change on the water scarcity, this study aims to detect the drought trends in the southeast of Iran to investigate drought characteristics changes during 1981–2020. The nonparametric Mann–Kendall test was used for this purpose. CHIRPS product was collected as an alternative source of ground data for trend analysis of drought characteristics. The evaluation metrics show that the CHIRPS product performs better at monthly and annual scales (correlation higher than 0.8) than daily (correlation less than 0.4). The results also illustrate that the duration and severity of short-term droughts (3, 6, and 9 months) have decreased, while their intensity has increased. Conversely, duration, severity, and intensity changes for long-term droughts (12, 18, and 24 months) are insignificant. The trend in the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) showed that, in general, the southeast of Iran has not been getting drier during the last four decades. One may conclude that the change in precipitation is not the only reason for water challenges in this area, and both natural and anthropogenic drought might cause water scarcity. Accordingly, it is suggested that the effects of human activities and governmental plans should be considered as well.
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Introduction
Water scarcity and drying the water bodies in Iran during recent years are often considered as the consequences of climate change/variability and global warming. The report of the World Meteorological Organization, for the period 2001–2010 indicates that Iran has warmed by about 1 °C (WMO 2013) and it will become even drier and hotter in the future (Madani et al. 2016). Some previous studies indicated that global warming would decrease precipitation rates in arid and semiarid regions and increase droughts' intensity, duration, and severity (Heathcote 1983; Xu et al. 2005; UNFCCC 2007; Mahajan and Dodamani 2015; Sharma and Goyal 2020; Pandey et al. 2021). However, Greve et al. (2014) implied there is little evidence to show that the arid regions become drier and wet areas become wetter due to climate change. Some previous studies believed that beside climate change/variability, anthropogenic interventions should be considered as important drivers for water crisis (Ghandehari et al. 2020; Afzal and Ragab 2020; Balist et al. 2022).
It is worth noting that human and nature are coupled (Mianabadi et al. 2015). Considering the climate change/variability as the only reason for the environmental challenges and ignoring the role of human activities allow the policymakers to avoid their own responsibility for dealing with the causes and consequences of the ecological degradation (Oliver-Smith 2012; Safaee et al. 2020).
In Iran, during recent decades, overexploitation of natural resources and the implementation of various development plans such as dam construction and inter-basin water transfer projects have led to environmental degradation in the country (Makhdoum 2008; Kolahi et al. 2012; Eslami et al. 2020). These activities resulted in drying water bodies and declining groundwater resources which in turn led to undesirable consequences such as land subsidence, water contamination, and agricultural losses (Madani 2014; Pourmohamad et al. 2020).
Two of the most important lakes in Iran are located in the southeastern part: Jazmourian wetland on the border of Kerman–Sistan and Balouchestan Provinces and Lake Hamoun on the border of Iran–Afghanistan (See Fig. 1). In recent years, the amount of water in these two lakes has decreased, and sometimes they have been thoroughly dried up (Mianabadi et al. 2022). Drying the lakes has many undesirable economic, social, and environmental consequences, especially in the rural communities (Pourmohamad et al. 2012). From an environmental point of view, drying the lakes causes severe dust storms, which blow toward the surrounding villages and cities (Rashki 2012; Alizadeh-Choobari et al. 2014). It also limits the agricultural activities, resulting in economic problems, unemployment, and migration from rural areas to the cities (Delju et al. 2013; Pourmohamad et al. 2019). Abandoning the rural areas leads to rural population decrease and security threats in both sending and receiving regions (Mianabadi et al. 2021). While these consequences mainly arise from bad governance and a lack of preparedness plans, the government continuously blames climate variability (besides international sanctions) as the leading cause of the current situation (Madani 2014). Accordingly, it is essential to investigate the changes in climate variables in these getting dry areas to assess the role of climate change on the water challenges and drought characteristics.
Previous studies assessed drought trends and their characteristics in some areas worldwide (Pathak and Dodamani 2020; Derdous et al. 2021; Kassaye et al. 2021; Liu et al. 2021; Lotfirad et al. 2021; Qaisrani et al. 2021; Zerouali et al. 2021). Trend analysis of climatic data series requires long-term chronicled data (at least 30 years) (Burroughs 2003). However, the climatic data may not be available sufficiently on both temporal and spatial scales, or the access to the data is restricted. To deal with these limitations, some of the studies investigated the use of satellite precipitation products for trend analysis of drought characteristics (Brasil Neto et al. 2021; Santos et al. 2021). Their results showed that the satellites products performed well for drought monitoring.
Drought trend analysis using the satellite precipitation products did not conduct in any regions in Iran. Thus in this study, we applied the CHIRPS precipitation product (Funk et al. 2015) for drought monitoring as previously used by Guo et al. (2017), Pandey et al. (2021), Najjuma et al. (2021), Sandeep et al. (2021), and Ahmad et al. (2021) with reasonable performance. The CHIRPS product provides long-term precipitation estimates (40 years) and is easily accessible. Some previous studies indicated that the product performed properly in their study regions (Ayehu et al. 2018; Dinku et al. 2018; Gao et al. 2018; Rivera et al. 2018). Hence, it can be a reliable product for drought assessment in the study area. Accordingly, this paper aims to detect the trends in drought in southeastern Iran by using the CHIRPS product to see how the drought characteristics are changing in this area over the last four decades.
Materials and methods
Study area
The southeast of Iran includes two provinces: Kerman and Sistan and Balouchestan (Fig. 1). These two provinces cover an area of about 365,000 Km2 and are classified as arid and semiarid regions. The Lut desert, the hottest spot in Iran (and in the world, according to NASA’s satellite data of land surface temperature (Zhao et al. 2021)), is located in this area. The mean annual precipitation recorded in the capitals of the provinces, Kerman and Zahedan, during 1966–2015 has been about 136 and 80 mm, respectively (Mianabadi et al. 2019). Precipitation occurs mainly in winter, February, and rarely in summer, September (Fig. S1). The mean annual temperature at these two stations is about 15.9 °C and 18.7 °C, with annual potential evaporation of 2560 and 2281 mm, respectively (Mianabadi et al. 2019). In this region, the elevation ranges from zero on the beach of the Oman Sea to more than 4000 m in the mountainous areas in Kerman (Fig. 1).
Synoptic data
Due to limited access to the rainfall data and excluding the time series with missing data, the daily precipitation was only available from 2005 to 2019 for 16 synoptic stations (Fig. 1). The available data were applied to evaluate the accuracy of the CHIRPS product in estimating daily, monthly, and annual precipitation over the study area.
CHIRPS
The Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS; Funk et al. (2015)) was developed based on global Cold Cloud Duration (CCD) rainfall estimates calibrated by the TMPA 3B42 v7 (Huffman et al. 2006). Funk et al. (2015) used the inverse distance weighting (IDW) algorithm to blend the satellite and stations data to reduce performance bias. CHIRPS provides daily precipitation at both 0.05° and 0.25° spatial resolution from 1981 to the present. Previous studies suggested that the 0.05° resolution can be used to assess sub-basin and small watersheds (Duan et al. 2016; Aadhar and Mishra 2017; Geleta and Deressa 2021). But at a larger scale, the metrics for both resolutions are similar (Duan et al. 2016). According to the large scale of the case study, the monthly CHIRPS from January 1981 to December 2020 at 0.25° spatial resolution was used. The data were acquired from ftp://ftp.chg.ucsb.edu.
Evaluation metrics
The accuracy of the CHIRPS product was evaluated by the coefficient of determination (R2), Pearson Correlation Coefficient (PCC), Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), and Mean Error (ME) as follows:
In these equations, \({x}_{iC}\) and \({x}_{ig}\) are the CHIRPS and the rain gauges precipitation, respectively. \(\overline{{x }_{C}}\) and \(\overline{{x }_{g}}\) are the averages of \({x}_{iC}\) and \({x}_{ig}\) and n is the number of observations.
Additionally, the ability of the CHIRPS product to distinguish between rain and no-rain events can be evaluated using Categorical Statistical Indices, including Probability of Detection (POD), False Alarm Ratio (FAR), and Critical Success Index (CSI) (Ebert et al. 2007).
In these equations, “R” and “N” indicate rain and no-rain events, respectively. In each combination, the first/second letter represents the station/satellite product. For example, “RN” for a given day shows that the station recorded rainfall, but the product did not detect any rainfall. POD, FAR, and CSI vary between 0 and 1, with the perfect value of 1, 0, and 1, respectively.
Drought characteristic
Drought characteristic is identified by the Run Theory (Yevjevich 1967). Based on this theory, drought can be investigated by Drought Duration (DD), Drought Severity (DS), and Drought Intensity (DI). DD, DS, and DI are identified according to a drought index. In this study, the Standard Precipitation Index (SPI; McKee et al. (1993)) is used. A gamma probability density is firstly fitted to the long-term precipitation series to calculate the SPI:
In this equation, \(x\) is the amount of precipitation, and \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\) are the shape and scale parameters, respectively. \(\Gamma \left(\alpha \right)\) is the gamma function presented as follows:
The best values of α and β are estimated by the maximum likelihood method:
where \(A=\mathrm{ln}\left(\overline{x }\right)-\frac{\sum \mathrm{ln}(x)}{n}\), \(\overline{x }\) and \(n\) are the mean and the number of precipitation observations, respectively.
The cumulative probability for a given month can be obtained by the following equation:
And then SPI is calculated as follows:
in which, \(t=\sqrt{\mathrm{ln}\left(\frac{1}{{H(x)}^{2}}\right)}\), \(H\left(x\right)=q+\left(1-q\right)G(x)\), and \(q\) is the probability of zero rainfall.
For \(0<H\left(x\right)\le 0.5\), \(S=-1\), and for \(0.5<H\left(x\right)<1\), \(S=1\). In Eq. 13, c0 = 2.5155, c1 = 0.8028, c2 = 0.0103, d1 = 1.4327, d2 = 0.1892, and d3 = 0.0013.
SPI is calculated by monthly precipitation for different timescales (from 1 to 48 month(s)). In this study, we calculated the SPI for short-term (SPI3, SPI6, and SPI9) and long-term (SPI12, SPI18, and SPI24) droughts. Drought events are characterized by the period with SPI ≤ 0. The severity of drought events is classified as shown in Table 1.
Based on the SPI and Run Theory, DD is defined as the number of months between the start and end of a drought event (when SPI ≤ 0), DS is the cumulative SPI during DD, and DI is the ratio between DS and DD (i.e., \(\mathrm{DI}=\frac{\mathrm{DS}}{\mathrm{DD}}\)).
Trend analysis and Sen’s slope estimator
The nonparametric Mann–Kendall test (Mann 1945; Kendall 1975) analyzes the trend in a data time series. The test can be applied to all probability distributions. Thus, the data do not have to meet the assumption of normality. The Mann–Kendall (MK) test is defined as follows:
where
In these equations,\({x}_{j}\) and \({x}_{k}\) are the sequential data values, \(V(S)\) is the variance of \(S\), \({t}_{i}\) is the number of ties for the \(i\)-th value, \(n\) and \(m\) are the number of data points and tied groups, respectively. The positive/negative value of \({z}_{MK}\) indicates an upward/downward trend in the series.
The trend magnitude in hydroclimatic data is estimated by the nonparametric Sen’s slope estimator test (Sen 1968) as follows:
where \({x}_{j}\) and \({x}_{k}\) are the time-series value at time \(j\) and \(k\) (\(j>k\)). The positive/negative value of \(\beta\) denotes an upward/downward trend (Xu et al. 2010).
Results and discussion
Evaluation of the CHIRPS product
Figures 2 and 3 show that the CHIRPS product provides a reasonable estimation of precipitation at monthly and annual scales; however, it does not perform well on the daily scale. The amount of POD and CSI are less than 0.2 and FAR is higher than 0.6. It shows that CHIRPS could not discriminate between rain and no-rain events. R2 and PCC at daily scales are less than 0.2 and 0.4, respectively. At monthly and annual scales, R2 and PCC show higher values (higher than 0.6 and 0.8, respectively), indicating the excellent performance of CHIRPS in monthly and annual precipitation estimation. The previous studies also found that the satellite products, including CHIRPS, perform better at monthly and annual scales rather than the daily scale (Dembélé and Zwart 2016; Guo et al. 2017; Rivera et al. 2018; Ghozat et al. 2021; Nawaz et al. 2021; Oliveira-Júnior et al. 2021). The precipitation satellite products often use infrared images to detect the temperature of the top of the clouds as part of their algorithm for precipitation estimation. In dry regions, the sensors do not have enough time to detect the temperature of the top of the clouds, because in this regions the clouds disappear very quickly after formation. Hence, the satellite products have a better estimate of precipitation in the wet areas than in the dry areas (Zambrano et al. 2016; Bai et al. 2018). Funk et al. (2015) incorporated the stations’ data for bias correction by using the IDW algorithm. They believed that the lack of uncertainty information of IDW is a considerable weakness of the CHIRPS algorithm. Thus, they plan to use more rigorous geostatistical models for future CHIRPS releases. They also suggested that the low correlation in parts of Asia, Africa, and South America would be improved by providing more rain gauges (Funk et al. 2015). Moreover, the number of stations used to retrieve precipitation varies significantly from one year to another, and some stations in some countries are located outside the country (Montes et al. 2021). This discrepancy can lead to the inappropriate performance of the CHIRPS product.
Figure 4 shows that RMSE mainly varies between 4–5 mm/day on the daily scale, 10–15 mm/month on the monthly scale, and 40–60 mm/year on the annual scale. The figure also illustrates that ME ranges between -0.2 and + 0.2 mm/day on the daily scale, -4 and + 4 mm/month on the monthly scale, and -50 and + 50 mm/year on the annual scale. Positive and negative ME values indicate that the model overestimated and underestimated precipitation, respectively. Generally, CHIRPS overestimates precipitation in mountainous stations and underestimates in lowland stations. These results are consistent with previous studies (e.g., Messmer et al. 2021; Nawaz et al. 2021; Geleta and Deressa 2021) and might be because of either local climate or the quality of the rain gauge data (Dinku et al. 2018). However, Saeidizand et al. (2018) showed that compared to the rain gauges rainfall, CHIRPS overestimated precipitation during 2005–2014 in Iran. Figure 5 illustrates the two-dimensional kernel density distribution of the two sets of CHIRPS and rain gauges data. It indicates that for both Kerman (Fig. 5a) and Sistan and Balouchestan (Fig. 5b) Provinces, the CHIRPS-estimated rainfall data captured the rainfall pattern on the monthly scale. Hence, the CHIRPS products work reasonably on the monthly scale and can be applied for drought monitoring over the study region.
Trends in SPI
Figure 6 shows the spatial distribution of the trend and Sen’s slope of the SPI time series over the southeast of Iran. It indicates that SPI has been significantly increasing in this area at all timescales except in some places in the southeast of Sistan and Balouchestan Province, where both increasing and decreasing trends are insignificant (Fig. 6a). However, SPI has been significantly decreasing in the northeast of Sistan and Balouchestan, where Lake Hamoun is located. The results indicate that, generally, the receiving precipitation in southeastern Iran has been increasing during the last four decades. This figure also shows that Sen’s slope values and the areas with significant SPI trends increase as the timescale increases (Fig. 6b). It indicates that the long-term droughts show a steeper slope for the SPI time series than the short-term droughts. The spatial distribution of SPI over the four ten-year periods in the southeast of Iran (Fig. S2) confirms this result, as it shows that for all timescales, the fourth decade (2011–2020) is the wettest and the first decade (1981–1990) is the driest. It is also illustrated by Figs. 7 (Hovmöller diagram) and S3 which provide a visual temporal change in SPI at different timescales during 1981–2020. According to these figures, the shorter timescales exhibit alternating periods of dryness and wetness, since they aggregate periods of lesser drought durations (Qaisrani et al. 2021). In contrast, the longer timescales show more severe and prolonged droughts (Pandey et al. 2021; Qaisrani et al. 2021). The most severe and prolonged drought in both provinces occurred during 1985–1993 and 2000–2004, confirmed by previous studies (Asadi Zarch et al. 2011; Mianabadi et al. 2020). These figures indicate that 2005 to 2020 are the wettest period during the last 40 years. Hence, it may have affected the spatial distribution of Sen’s slopes and SPI trends. It may be worth noting that drought events in this area coincide with La Nina, as also confirmed by Nikraftar and Khaniani (2018), Alizadeh-Choobari et al. (2018), Alizadeh-Choobari and Najafi (2018), Amini et al. (2020), and Mohammadrezaei et al. (2020). However, the effect of this phenomenon on drought in the southeast of Iran is not remarkable.
Trends in drought characteristics
Figure 8 demonstrates the ZMK value for DD, DS, and DI. It shows that the DD over the southeast of Iran has decreased during these 40 years for short- and long-term droughts. In the mountainous areas in Kerman, the decreasing trend in DD is significant, especially for SPI-3, SPI-6, and SPI-9. In the north of Sistan and Balouchestan, where Lake Hamoun is located, DD has been increasing, which this increasing trend is mostly insignificant. The results of DS are similar to those of DD; however, the latter have more accentuated trends. Such results were also found by Brasil Neto et al. (2021). They argued that if DD and DS time-series trends are the same, it probably indicates that the trend in DI would be constant. This result can be observed in some parts of the study area as well (Fig. 8). Nevertheless, drought events will be more intense when the duration decrease with a greater rate than severity. DS has been increasing for SPI-3 in some regions in Sistan and Balouchestan. This increasing trend is primarily insignificant. At other timescales, DS has an insignificant negative trend. Figure 8 indicates that, in general, DI has been increasing according to SPI-3, SPI-6, and SPI-9 and decreasing according to SPI-12, SPI-18, and SPI-24. It means that the intensity of short-term droughts is increasing, and that of long-term droughts is decreasing. The increasing trend of DI for SPI-3 is significant, especially over Sistan and Balouchestan. For other scales, both increasing and decreasing trends are insignificant.
In general, the results show that while the duration and severity of short-term droughts (SPI-3, SPI-6, and SPI-9) have been decreasing (i.e., shorter drought events with less severity), their intensity has been increasing. However, changes in duration, severity, and intensity of long-term droughts (SPI-12, SPI-18, and SPI-24) are insignificant. These results are not similar to the results of the SPI trend (Fig. 6a). It is firmly because trend analysis is conducted with less data in the long-term series than in the short-term series (Brasil Neto et al. 2021). Brasil Neto et al. (2021) argued that a positive trend in SPI does not necessarily lead to a negative trend in the DD time series. Indeed, they complement each other. For example, the results of this study indicate that in some parts of the study area, the long-term events are becoming wetter over time, while their duration tends to be constant.
Figure 9 shows the spatial distribution of Sen’s slope for the DD, DS, and DI time series. Regarding the timescales, the foremost remarkable results of Sen’s slopes were observed for long-term droughts. However, trends in DD, DS, and DI are more significant at short-term scales. Such results were found by Brasil Neto et al. (2021) and Qaisrani et al. (2021). Brasil Neto et al. (2021) discussed that reducing the amount of data for these time series may render the series without a high level of significance (e.g., α > 0.10), albeit Sen’s slopes are rather more accentuated.
Generally, the results of the current study using CHIRPS are similar to the previous studies conducted by Asadi Zarch et al. (2011), Sobhani et al. (2019), and Sharafati et al. (2020), which used rain gauge data for trend analysis of SPI, DD, DS, and DI. Thus, the CHIRPS product can be a reliable alternative data source for drought monitoring in the study area.
Conclusion
The main goal of this study was to detect the drought trends in the southeast of Iran to investigate drought characteristics changes. The nonparametric Mann–Kendall test was used for trend analysis of drought characteristics. Long-term historical precipitation data were collected by applying the CHIRPS satellite precipitation product as independent and alternative sources of ground data. Evaluation of the CHIRPS product showed that it performed better at monthly and annual scales than daily scale. The product also detects the prolonged drought during 1985–1993 and 2000–2004. Thus, it can be applied for drought monitoring, as the monthly precipitation is the primary input for calculating the SPI. The results of drought monitoring during 1981–2020 illustrate that short-term droughts (SPI-3, SPI-6, and SPI-9) have been getting shorter with less severity, while their intensity has increased. However, the increasing trend in DI has been only significant for SPI-3. In contrast, duration, severity, and intensity changes in long-term droughts (SPI-12, SPI-18, and SPI-24) are insignificantly decreasing. In general, it concluded that there had been no significant changes in drought characteristics in the southeast of Iran during the last four decades. The results of this study indicate that the CHIRPS product is a valuable tool for precipitation estimation and drought monitoring in the study area. Future work can focus on applying other precipitation satellite products to have more reliable results in the study area. It would help the scientists, experts, and decision-makers better distinguish between the role of climate change and human activities on changes in precipitation rate and drought characteristics. It also can lead the policymakers to provide appropriate preparedness plans for dealing with water challenges in the area.
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Mianabadi, A., Salari, K. & Pourmohamad, Y. Drought monitoring using the long-term CHIRPS precipitation over Southeastern Iran. Appl Water Sci 12, 183 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13201-022-01705-4
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