A New Statistical Approach to Assess Climate Variability in the White Bandana Watershed, Northern Côte d’Ivoire

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Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
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Titre
A New Statistical Approach to Assess Climate Variability in the White Bandana Watershed, Northern Côte d’Ivoire
Périodique
Atmospheric and Climate Sciences
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Yao F.Z., Reynard E., Ouattara I., N'go Y.A., Fallot J.-M.
Collaborateur⸱rice⸱s
Savané I.
ISSN
2160-0414 (Print)
2160-0422 (Online)
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
20/10/2018
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
8
Numéro
4
Pages
410-430
Langue
anglais
Résumé
The population of northern Côte d’Ivoire, especially in the white Bandama watershed, lives for majority in rural areas and depends on farming, which is mainly linked to climate variability. This study evaluates the trends within watershed’s hydro-climatic variables and their level of significance over the period 1950-2000. The methodological approach consists in applying successively standardized indexes to detect trends and breaks in hydro-climatic long-term data. The Mann-Kendall statistical test lets us know the trends significance and the Kendall-Theil Robust Line test reveals their magnitude. The Student’s t test underlines break years. Results show that although rainfall has decreased, this decline is not statistically significant. However, temperature and potential evapotranspiration have strongly rised and discharge was
submitted to high decline. These changes in hydrometeorological variables appeared from 1970 to 1980. This study is different from others conducted on climate variability in the northern Côte d’Ivoire by the methodological
statistical framework implemented and the understanding of significance level of climate trends. Until now, authors used the standardized index to detect trends in hydro-climatic parameters. For this work, we added the Mann-Kendall statistical test to assess the significance level of these trends at α = 5% and 10%. Then, the Kendall-Theil statistical test was used to highlight the trends magnitude and the student’s t test to know the break years.
Mots-clé
Hydro-Climatic Trend, Statistical Tests, White Bandama Watershed
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