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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.