Delineation of dew formation zones in Iran using  long-term model simulations and cluster analysis

Atashi, Nahid; Rahimi, Dariush; Sinclair, Victoria A.; Zaidan, Martha A.; Rusanen, Anton; Vuollekoski, Henri; Kulmala, Markku; Vesala, Timo; Hussein, Tareq

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-4719-2021

Articles | Volume 25, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-4719-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-4719-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 25, issue 9

Research article

|

31 Aug 2021

Research article |

| 31 Aug 2021

Delineation of dew formation zones in Iran using long-term model simulations and cluster analysis

Nahid Atashi, Dariush Rahimi, Victoria A. Sinclair, Martha A. Zaidan, Anton Rusanen, Henri Vuollekoski, Markku Kulmala, Timo Vesala, and Tareq Hussein

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-4719-2021-supplement

Data sets

vuolleko/dew_collection H. Vuollekoski https://github.com/vuolleko/dew_collection/

ERA Interim, Daily ECMWF https://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/data/interim-full-daily/levtype=sfc/

Short summary

Dew formation potential during a long-term period (1979–2018) was assessed in Iran to identify dew formation zones and to investigate the impacts of long-term variation in meteorological parameters on dew formation. Six dew formation zones were identified based on cluster analysis of the time series of the simulated dew yield. The distribution of dew formation zones in Iran was closely aligned with topography and sources of moisture. The dew formation trend was significantly negative.