Open AccessStatistical analysis of seasonal rainfall data in Chandigarh: A case study
Author(s) -
Kaamun,
Sahil Arora
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/889/1/012024
Subject(s) - kurtosis , skewness , seasonality , climatology , goodness of fit , geography , environmental science , statistics , mathematics , geology
The following research focuses on Chandigarh’s annual rainfall of past 50 years i.e. from 1968 to 2017. Parameters like Kurtosis, Variance, Goodness of Fit, Mann-Kendall’s Test were performed along with total annual forecast as well as seasonal forecast was predicted. Seasonal rend was also studied so as to study in detail about the past, present, and future of rainfall in Chandigarh. This study was performed with the help of MS-Excel and ExcelStat. A rising trend was found in Chandigarh for total as well as seasonal rainfall with a maximum rainfall of 1510.9 mm in the year of 1996 and a minimum of 371.1 mm in year 1987, other than this Sen.’s slope was 6.431 whereas skewness was found to be 0.6018.