Forcasting analysis of total dissolved solids and chloride concentrations in Euphrates River in Babylon Province-Hilla City

Abstract EN

The monthly time series of the Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) and Chloride(CL) concentrations in Euphrates River at Babylon were analyzed as a time series.

The data used for the analysis was the monthly series during (2000-2013).

The series was tested for non-homogeneity and found to be nonhomogeneous.

A significant positive jump was observed at 2002 for Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) and at 2006 for Chloride (CL).

This non homogeneity was removed using a method suggested by Yevichevich (7).

The homogeneous series was then normalized using Box and Cox (2) transformation.

The periodic component of the series was fitted using harmonic analyses, and removed from the series to obtain the dependent stochastic component.

This component was then modeled using first order autoregressive model (Markovian chain).

The above analysis was conducted using the data for the period (2001-2011), the remaining 2-years (2012-2013) of the observed data was left for the verification of the model.

The observed model was used to generate future series.

Those series were compared with the observed series using t-test.

The comparison indicates the capability of the model to produce acceptable future data.