Mahtab Safari Shad; Mahmoud Habibnejad Roshan; Karim Solaimani; Alireza Ildoromi; Hossein Zeinivand
Volume 4, Issue 10 , June 2017, , Pages 81-98
Abstract
Climate change has altered the earth’s hydrologic cycles, especially its temporal and spatial distributions. Therefore, prediction of its future changes is very important. This study investigated the effects of climate change onthe precipitation, minimum temperature, maximum temperature, and runoff ...
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Climate change has altered the earth’s hydrologic cycles, especially its temporal and spatial distributions. Therefore, prediction of its future changes is very important. This study investigated the effects of climate change onthe precipitation, minimum temperature, maximum temperature, and runoff in three sub watersheds in Hamadan, Bahar Watershed. To this end, the WETSPASS model was used to estimate runoff and the LARS-WG model was used to predict climate variables between the years of 2014 and 2043. The results showed that the HadCM3 model with the largest weighting coefficient and the lowest error has the highest efficiency in simulation of precipitation and temperature. According to the scaled down measurements, in the next period, the average minimum and maximum temperatures will respectively increase up to 1.22 ºc and 0.9 ºc and the total rainfall will decrease about 8%. The results of the impact of the climate change on the future of the watershed's hydrology showed that runoff volume for all three sub-watersheds under the A2 scenario and the first and second sub-watersheds under the B1 scenario is going to decrease. For the third sub-watersheds, in contrast, it is going to increase. In addition, while total runoff input to plain will decrease by 36 % under A2 scenario, it will increase by 8 % under B1 scenario which will affect the watershed's water resource system changes. The remarkable thing is the reduction in rainfall in the winter and in the spring, disassembling the temporal distribution of the rainfall, and increasing the temperature. Accompanied by land use changes, it can have a significant negative effect on the future water resources management.
