تحليل جغرافي للتغير المناخي في تغير محصول القطن في محافظة واسط

Abstract EN

The aim of the research is a geographical analysis of climate change in the change of cotton yield in Wasit Governorate.

To show the climatic changes on the climatic elements (actual solar brightness, minimum and maximum temperatures) and their impact on changing the cotton crop and its implications in Wasit Governorate, and the extent of the impact of these changes on the area, yield and production of the crop.

It relied on data for three climatic stations (Baghdad, Diwaniyah, and Al Hayy) for the period (1985-2017.) Determine the calculation of the trend coefficient, the annual rate of change and the rate of change during the research period for the average of the different climatic elements, and that was in the form (annual and annual cycles), showing the actual solar brightness direction in all study stations towards decline and the trend of the minimum and maximum temperatures towards the rise, and the research concluded that changes Some of it is positive and the other negative, which occurred in the cotton crop.