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Temporal Variations of Precipitation and Temperature
The temporal variations of climatic variables of the total monthly
precipitation [Figure 7] and mean monthly temperature [Figure 8]
over Turkey were extracted from gridded CHELSA and FLDAS outputs,
respectively. According to the graphs, there is a slight rise in the
trends of both precipitation and temperature values from 2003 to 2016.
The interaction of climatic variables and variations of groundwater
storage were analyzed in different time lags. The best fit was found
between GWSA and 2-month-lagged precipitation and temperature with the
correlation coefficient of 0.615 and 0.867, respectively. Figures 9 and
10 show the monthly interactions of GWSA and climatic variables over
Turkey.