Abstract:

The research area is Susurluk Tea Pool, and the subject of the research is the trend analysis of the average temperature and total rainfall parameters at 8 meteorological stations with over 30 years of observations (1979-2019) located in the pool. The aim of the study is to analyze the annual and seasonal trends of these data, taking into account the monthly average temperature and rainfall data of the meteorological stations that have been measuring throughout the pool for many years. The study applied the Mann-Kendall and Spearman's Rho test, the trend methods. According to the results obtained, significant increases in average temperatures were observed throughout the pool both annually and seasonally. The summer season is the season where the significant and strong positive trend observed in the temperature is the strongest. There has been no significant increase or decrease in the summer, autumn and winter seasons and in annual rainfall throughout the pool. The temperature increase observed in the pool has not seen any significant impact on annual and seasonal rainfall.

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