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Water Resources Management
Published in: Water Resources Management 5/2018

12-01-2018

Streamflow and Hydrological Drought Trend Analysis and Forecasting in Cyprus

Authors: Dimitrios Myronidis, Konstantinos Ioannou, Dimitrios Fotakis, Gerald Dörflinger

Published in: Water Resources Management | Issue 5/2018

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Abstract

The persistent water shortage in Cyprus has been alleviated by importing freshwater from neighbouring countries, and severe droughts have been met with financial reimbursement from the EU at least twice. The goal of this research is to investigate and perform short-term forecasting of both streamflow and hydrological drought trends over the island. Eleven hydrometric stations with a 34-year common record length of the mean daily discharge from 10/1979 to 09/2013 are used for this purpose, with the relevant upstream catchments considered to represent pristine conditions. The Streamflow Drought Index (SDI) successfully captures the hydrological drought conditions over the island, and the performance of the index is validated based on both the historic drought archives and results from other drought indices for the island. The Mann–Kendall (M-K) test reveals that the annual and seasonal time series of the discharge volumes always illustrate a decreasing but insignificant trend at a significance level of a = 0.05; additionally, the decrease per decade in the average annual streamflow volume based on Sen’s slope statistic is approximately −9.4%. The M-K test on the SDI reveals that drought conditions intensified with time. Ten autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models are built and used to forecast the mean monthly streamflow values with moderate accuracy; the best ARIMA forecast model in each catchment is derived by comparing two model-performance statistical measures for the different (p,d,q) model parameters. The predicted discharge values are processed by the SDI-3 index, revealing that non-drought conditions are expected in most catchments in the upcoming three months, although mild-drought conditions are anticipated for catchments 7, 8 and 9.
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Metadata
Title
Streamflow and Hydrological Drought Trend Analysis and Forecasting in Cyprus
Authors
Dimitrios Myronidis
Konstantinos Ioannou
Dimitrios Fotakis
Gerald Dörflinger
Publication date
12-01-2018
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Water Resources Management / Issue 5/2018
Print ISSN: 0920-4741
Electronic ISSN: 1573-1650
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-018-1902-z

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