Century-Scale Climate Evolution in Semiarid High Plateaus, Algeria

ABSTRACT: The study presents a comprehensive analysis of long-term climate trends in Setif, Algeria, a representative semiarid highland station, using a 125-yr dataset (1900-2024) of monthly and annual precipitation and maximum and minimum temperature. Given the discontinuities in the historical dataset, two neighboring reference stations (Batna and Constantine) and three imputation methods wer…