Evaluation of Climatic Trends in Dass LGA, Bauchi State, Nigeria

Auwal Garba ¹ , Mijinyawa Garba Abdullahi ²

^1,2 Department of Environmental Management Technology, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Nigeria.

Abstract

The impacts of global climate change are increasingly being felt around the world. Rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, and the melting of glaciers are affecting ecosystems and human societies in different ways, while climate change is expected to create new opportunities in some parts of the world. The obtained data of Dass Local Government Area (LGA) of Bauchi State was analysed using Linear Trend Model (LTM). The findings of this research reaffirm that among the climatic parameters that influence the climate variability in the study area, minimum and maximum temperatures, rainfall and solar radiation are the most important ones. The research concludes that there is both positive and negative variation of climate parameters in the study area. It is recommended that more meteorological stations should be deployed in the area for more coverage.

Keywords: Climate change; Dass LGA.; Linear trend model (LTM); Evaluation; Nigeria.

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