Current Status of Time Series Analysis in Hydrological Sciences - Hydrologic Time Series Analysis: Theory and Practice - page 96

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Current Status of Time Series
Analysis in Hydrological Sciences
Time series analysis has been successfully applied in the fields like geology,
ocean engineering, seismology, hydrology, climatology, etc. The hydrological
and climatological time series studies have been carried out for analyzing the
historic rainfall data (e.g., Henderson, 1989; De Michele et al., 1998; Mirza et
al., 1998; Pagliara et al., 1998; Abaurrea and Cebrian, 2003; Pugacheva et al.,
2003; Astel et al., 2004), streamflow data (Avinash and Ghanshyam, 1988;
Capodaglio and Moisello, 1990; Radziejewski et al., 2000; Fanta et al., 2001;
Adeloye and Montaseri, 2002; Chen and Rao, 2002), flood data (Grew and
Werrity, 1995; Changnon and Kunkel, 1995; Westmacott and Burn, 1997;
Robson et al., 1998; Reed et al., 1999; Lins and Slack, 1999; Loukas and
Quick, 1996, 1999; Cayan et al., 1999; Jain and Lall, 2001; Douglas et al.,
2000; Adamowski and Bocci, 2001; Zhang et al., 2001; Cunderlik and Burn,
2002), infiltration data (Schwankl et al., 2000), and surface water quality data
(Jayawardena and Lai, 1989; Higashino et al., 1999) as well as for generating
synthetic rainfall data in semi-arid regions (Janos et al., 1988), determining
water consumption patterns (Maidment and Parzen, 1984), detecting trends in
evapotranspiration and wind speed (Hameed et al., 1997; Raghuwanshi and
Wallender, 1997), and for detecting climate change or variability (Kite, 1989;
Khan, 2001).
A comprehensive literature survey (Machiwal and Jha, 2006) revealed
that both theoretical and applied research on time series analyses have been
conducted in the hydrological and climatological (meteorological) sciences in
the past. The theoretical research basically involves advancement of an existing
time series test or development of a novel method for analyzing the hydrologic
time series while the applied research mainly highlights application of the
existing approaches of time series analysis to hydrologic time series for different
purposes. In climatological studies, time series analysis has been applied to
precipitation, maximum and minimum air temperature, water temperature,
evapotranspiration and climate change. In hydrologic studies, streamflow,