scholarly journals Analyzing Wetness and Dryness Severity in Bangladesh: Using Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) in GIS Environment

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-131
Author(s):  
NMR Nasher ◽  
MN Uddin

Daily precipitation data of 33 stations were analyzed to know the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI). Both spatial and temporal SPI were analyzed. Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) technique was used to map the spatial SPI with a decadal change. From 1983 to 2013, four maps showed the decadal changes of SPI over Bangladesh. 1993 was a dry year in the regarding time period. Station based trends were analyzed for Dhaka, Srimongol, Khulna, Cox’s bazaar and Rangpur as preventative for five regions in Bangladesh. Dryness is increasing over Northern and Central regions whereas wetness is increasing over Southwestern, Northern and eastern region in Bangladesh.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jesnr.v7i2.22220 Environ. Sci. & Natural Resources, 7(2): 127-131 2014

Author(s):  
Aditya Utama ◽  
Mohammad Pramono Hadi ◽  
Emilya Nurjani

The widespread drought area in Trenggalek Regency in 2019 needs to be analyzed to reduce negative impacts and as a monitoring tool to anticipate future drought events. The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) is a drought analysis method by calculating the rainwater deficit at various time scales used to identify the distribution of drought in Trenggalek Regency. This study using rain data on 13 rain stations for the period 1990-2019 and agricultural production data for 2019. The calculation results show that the highest SPI value occurred in March at the highly wet level with a value of 2.11. The lowest SPI value occurred in May at the extremely dry level with a value of -2.31. The results are then mapped using ArcGIS with the Inverse Distance Weighted (IDW) method to identify the spatial distribution of drought.


2022 ◽  
pp. 619-633
Author(s):  
Demetrios E. Tsesmelis ◽  
Constantina G. Vasilakou ◽  
Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos ◽  
Nikolaos Stathopoulos ◽  
Stavros G. Alexandris ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 535-548
Author(s):  
Alfian Firdaus ◽  
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Donny Harisuseno ◽  
Ery Suhartanto ◽  
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Kekeringan ialah bencana alam yang terjadi secara perlahan dan berdampak buruk untuk kelangsungan hidup penduduk Kabupaten Sampang. Mengingat hal tersebut, perlu dilakukan analisa indeks kekeringan serta pemetaan sebarannya sebagai upaya mitigasi bencana kekeringan. Studi ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui tingkat keparahan kekeringan dengan metode Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) dan Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), serta kesesuaiannya dengan data Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) yang mampu mempresentasikan kejadian El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Setelah itu, Indeks kekeringan yang lebih sesuai dengan pola SOI dipetakan dengan metode Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) untuk mengetahui sebaran kekeringan. Metode SPI menghasilkan indeks kekeringan terparah di bulan April 2004 sebesar -3,651 pada periode defisit 1 bulanan. Metode PDSI menghasilkan indeks kekeringan terparah di bulan September 2001 sebesar - 20,628. Berdasarkan hasil analisa rerata PDSI periode 1998-2017, diketahui bahwa bencana kekeringan umumnya bermula sejak bulan Juli dan berakhir di bulan Oktober, sedangkan puncak kekeringan terjadi pada bulan September. Metode PDSI juga memiliki kesesuaian sebesar 60% terhadap nilai SOI berdasarkan penggambaran grafik surplus dan defisit indeks rerata tahunan, lebih baik daripada metode SPI yang hanya bernilai 53%. Penggambaran peta sebaran kekeringan berdasarkan indeks kekeringan PDSI menunjukkan bahwa Kecamatan Sampang, Torjun, dan Camplong perlu diprioritaskan dalam upaya mitigasi bencana kekeringan di masa mendatang karena memiliki potensi bencana kekeringan lebih besar jika dibandingan kecamatan lainnya.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Anarul Haque Mondol ◽  
Iffat Ara ◽  
Subash Chandra Das

Natural disasters are a major concern in Bangladesh, particularly drought which is one of the most common disaster in Bangladesh. Drought needs to be explained spatially to understand its spatiotemporal variations in different areas. In this paper, the meteorological drought has been shown by using the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) method and illustrated through the Inverse Distance Weighted (IDW) method across Bangladesh. We used rainfall data of 30 meteorological stations in Bangladesh during the study period of 1981–2010. The results indicate that drought has been fluctuating and it has become a recurrent phenomenon during the study period. The SPI depicted the drought conditions that plunged dramatically in 1981, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1992, 1994, and 1996 and then gradually improved in 2004, 2006, and 2009 in the country. The present study demonstrated that drought occurred in Bangladesh on an average of 2.5 years. Drought was more prominent in the northern, south-western, and eastern regions in Bangladesh compared to the rest of the areas of the country. The outcomes of the present study will help in during disaster management strategies, particularly drought, by initiating effective plans and adaptation remedies in different areas of Bangladesh.


2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 523-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Vicente-Serrano ◽  
J. I. López-Moreno

Abstract. At present, the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) is the most widely used drought index to provide good estimations about the intensity, magnitude and spatial extent of droughts. The main advantage of the SPI in comparison with other indices is the fact that the SPI enables both determination of drought conditions at different time scales and monitoring of different drought types. It is widely accepted that SPI time scales affect different sub-systems in the hydrological cycle due to the fact that the response of the different water usable sources to precipitation shortages can be very different. The long time scales of SPI are related to hydrological droughts (river flows and reservoir storages). Nevertheless, few analyses empirically verify these statements or the usefulness of the SPI time scales to monitor drought. In this paper, the SPI at different time scales is compared with surface hydrological variables in a big closed basin located in the central Spanish Pyrenees. We provide evidence about the way in which the longer (>12 months) SPI time scales may not be useful for drought quantification in this area. In general, the surface flows respond to short SPI time scales whereas the reservoir storages respond to longer time scales (7–10 months). Nevertheless, important seasonal differences can be identified in the SPI-usable water sources relationships. This suggests that it is necessary to test the drought indices and time scales in relation to their usefulness for monitoring different drought types under different environmental conditions and water demand situations.


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