Document Type : Original Article
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Senior expert in watershed management in agricultural jihad management of Sirjan city
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Assistant Professor, Department of Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Research, Kerman Agricultural and Natural Resource Research Center, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, Kerman, Iran.
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1Assistant Professor, Department of Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Research, Kerman Agricultural and Natural Resource Research Center, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, Kerman, Iran. Hamzah.4900@yahoo.com
10.22034/nawee.2023.425808.1057
Abstract
Nitrate anion is one of the most important indicators for determining the level of groundwater pollution around the world, so that various researches have been done on it in different water resources in watersheds. In this study, the amount of nitrate in 55 water sources was obtained in Sirjan plain. Then, geostatistical methods such as ordinary krigin (OK), inverse distance weight (IDW), normal distance weight (NDW), and co-kriging were used. To evaluate the performance of prediction and estimation models, performance indicators of Coefficient of determination (R2), Root mean square error (RMSE), Mean Square Error (MSE), mean absolute error (MAE), correlation coefficient (R) and coefficient Nash - Sutcliff (NS) is used. After selecting the best method of interpolation, spatial zoning maps related to nitrate variable was prepared in Arc GIS software. The results showed that the average nitrate of groundwater in Sirjan plain is lower than the standard limit. The Gaussin model was also considered the most appropriate. Also, ordinary Kriging method showed the highest values in terms of coefficient of determination (R2) with 0.9604317, correlation coefficient (R) with 1 and Nash- Sutcliff (NA) coefficient with 0.283255 and also showed the lowest values in terms of root mean square error (RMSE) with 2.54974, Mean Square Error (MSE) with 0.0000018181, mean absolute error (MAE) with 1.202976 in comparison with other methods. The results also showed that the upward trend of nitrate content is from the surrounding and the margins of the plains towards the center and northern parts of it.
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