Studying the Minimum Average Temperature changes of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province for Disaster Management Planning

Most of the crises have been aggravated by adverse climatic conditions, escalating human death toll. Regarding past experience of crises, minimum temperature factor is of remarkable importance among different climatic determinants since crises occurring in bad temperature circumstances create double needs for victims and influence rescue and relief efforts. Being aware of climatic conditions and minimum temperature, in particular, could be therefore helpful in prior planning for disaster and organizing the victim's priorities as well as relief and rescue teams so as to reduce the damages and tolls of temperature fall. Raw data gathered from climatology weather stations to recognize and determine minimum temperature changes in Charmahal and Bakhtiari province during various months of the year and to plan for managing disasters especially preparatory, rescue and relief provisions. After statistical calculation, the minimum amount of average temperature was obtained and segregated for all the 12 months of the year and zoning map of temperature for each month was achieved through processing by geographical information system (GIS) software. According to segregated zoning maps of minimum of monthly average temperature, temperature intervals of each month of the year were specified with which the minimum and maximum temperature for each month could be determined. The highest minimum average temperature of Charmahal and Bakhtiari province varies from -2.8 degrees centigrade to 22.6 degrees centigrade. The warmest month of the year relates to July (Tir to Mordad months) with the average temperature of 22.6 degrees Centigrade, in contrast to the lowest minimum average temperature of Charmahal and Bakhtiary province ranging from -21 to 5.3 degrees centigrade in Day and Bahman months. Finally the warmest and coldest months of the year were ranked.