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DOI	10.1016/j.atmosres.2019.03.010
	Changing characteristics of meteorological droughts in Nigeria during 1901–2010
	Shiru M.S.; Shahid S.; Chung E.-S.; Alias N.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0169-8095
起始页码	60
结束页码	73
卷号	223
英文摘要	The objective of this study was to assess the changes in the severity and return periods of meteorological droughts during major cropping seasons of Nigeria for the period 1901–2010 in order to understand the impacts of climate variation on seasonal droughts. Gauge-based gridded global precipitation climatology center (GPCC) rainfall and climate research unit (CRU) potential evapotranspiration (PET) data having a spatial resolution of 0.5° were used for the reconstruction of droughts using standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI). SPEI values were fitted with the best distribution function to estimate seasonal droughts return periods and the modified Mann-Kendall test was used to assess the secular changes in climate variables and drought index. The temporal variations in droughts and their interrelations with rainfall and temperature trends were assessed using a 50-year moving window with a 10-year time step. The results showed that meteorological drought severity has increased for all the cropping seasons of Nigeria. Temperature was found to be the dominating factor for defining droughts in semi-arid regions in the north while rainfall in the monsoon and tropical savanna climatic zones dominates in the south. Rises in temperature in the range of 0.14–0.42 °C/decade and almost no change in rainfall have caused decreases in SPEI up to −0.25/decade in some regions. The number of grid points with decreasing SPEI was found to vary between 50 out of 323 for millet and 152 for yam growing season. The moderate droughts were found to become more frequent compared to other classes of droughts. Amongst the cropping seasons, the highest increases in drought frequency were observed during corn growing season. The highest decrease in the median value of the return period of moderate, severe and extreme droughts during the two corn growing seasons were observed to be 6.25, 12.86 to 13.20, 23.15 to 24.31 years in 1901–1950 to 6.25, 12.92 to 12.94, 23.51 to 23.64 in 1961–2010. Compared to other drought severities, the return periods of the moderate droughts were found to decrease more. A general decrease in the return periods of droughts indicates more frequent droughts during all cropping seasons of Nigeria. Therefore, it can be concluded that the rising temperature due to global warming would increase drought severity and frequency in all the cropping seasons of Nigeria. © 2019
英文关键词	Climate change; Modified Mann-Kendall trend; Nigeria; Seasonal droughts; Standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Climate change; Distribution functions; Evapotranspiration; Global warming; Rain; Global precipitation; Mann-Kendall trends; Meteorological drought; Nigeria; Potential evapotranspiration; Rising temperatures; Seasonal droughts; Standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index; Drought; climate change; climate effect; drought; evapotranspiration; return period; seasonality; secular variation; trend analysis; Nigeria; Dioscorea alata; Zea mays
来源期刊	Atmospheric Research
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/162223
作者单位	Department of Water and Environmental Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor Bahru, 81310, Malaysia; Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Federal University Dutse, Dutse, P.M.B 7156, Nigeria; Department of Civil Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Shiru M.S.,Shahid S.,Chung E.-S.,等. Changing characteristics of meteorological droughts in Nigeria during 1901–2010[J],2019,223.
APA	Shiru M.S.,Shahid S.,Chung E.-S.,&Alias N..(2019).Changing characteristics of meteorological droughts in Nigeria during 1901–2010.Atmospheric Research,223.
MLA	Shiru M.S.,et al."Changing characteristics of meteorological droughts in Nigeria during 1901–2010".Atmospheric Research 223(2019).