Analysis of ENSO influence in the Yaqui Valley (Sonora, México) with dynamic and multiple regression models

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Isidro Roberto Cruz Medina

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Modeling and forecasting of rainfall is of great importance because it helps to estimate water availability and planning diverse human activities like agriculture. To estimate annual rainfall and monthly temperaturas it is common to use probability distributions like the Normal, Lognormal, Gamma and Gumbel distributions. Although these probability distributions have provided the useful forecast predictions needed in planning, these models do not take in consideration the possible influence of the Central Pacific Ocean-atmosphere anomalous oscillations in temperatures that have been called the “El Niño” or ENSO (El Niño Southern
Oscillation) event. In this paper, this influence is analyzed with correlation analysis, multiple regression methods and transfer functions or dynamic regression, it was found that at a national level there is an small increment in rainfall after a strong “El Niño” event, in contrast, in the Valle del Yaqui the annual rainfall decreases after the occurrence of a strong “El Niño”. The annual mean of minimum monthly temperaturas increases lightly in “El Niño” years and decreases in “La Niña” years.

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Cruz Medina, I. R. (1). Analysis of ENSO influence in the Yaqui Valley (Sonora, México) with dynamic and multiple regression models. Revista Latinoamericana De Recursos Naturales, 2(2), 65-80. Retrieved from https://revista.itson.edu.mx/index.php/rlrn/article/view/81
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