1M.Sc. Student, Department of Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
2Ph.D. Scholar, Soil and Nano Science Division, Defence Institute of High Altitude Research, DRDO, Leh-Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India
3Assistant Director, Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre, New Delhi-110012, India
*Corresponding author E-mail id: sunil.dubey86@gov.in
Online published on 17 July, 2017.
In this study, an effort has been made to characterise the spatial and temporal variability of precipitation in 13 districts of the Bundelkhand region spreading in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh of India in the during 1901–2002. The Bundelkhand region receives an average annual rainfall of 1,071.7 mm. The highest annual rainfall of 1,190.6 mm has been recorded in Sagar district, whereas the lowest annual rainfall of 902 mm has been recorded in Jalaun district. On the basis of rainfall records, the Bundelkhand region can be classified into two groups, namely, districts with high rainfall, namely, Panna, Tikamgarh, Lalitpur and Sagar receiving an average annual rainfall of 1,138 mm and low rainfall districts, namely, Jhansi, Jalaun, Hamirpur, Banda, Mahoba, Chitrakut, Datia, Chhatarpur and Damoh receiving an annual average rainfall of 1,011 mm. Standardized Precipitation Index indicates that 5 drought years were observed during 1901–1950 and 12 drought years were noticed during 1951–2000. This indicated a rising trend in the occurrence of drought in the region. Also indicates that the first half of the century was slightly wetter that the second half.
Bundelkhand, Mann–Kendal test, Rainfall variability, Standardized Precipitation Index, Drought, Time series
