Analysis of Changes in Precipitation and Drought in Aksu River Basin, Northwest China

Table 7

Results of the statistical tests for seasonal and annual precipitation during the period 1960–2010.

Station	Test	Season
		Spring	Summer	Autumn	Winter	Annual
Aksu		0.341	0.780	1.673	1.154	1.495
		0.295	0.952	1.696	1.264	1.690
		0.084	0.145	0.253	0.125	0.603
Aheqi		0.309	1.056	2.209^*	0.739	2.819^*
		0.434	1.106	2.338^*	0.529	3.026^*
		0.206	0.695	1.103	0.055	2.062
Alar		−0.520	1.592	−0.390	1.947	1.129
		−0.567	1.793	−0.325	2.152^*	1.159
		−0.041	0.253	−0.057	0.083	0.235
Baicheng		0.390	2.713^*	2.266^*	2.112^*	2.193^*
		0.392	3.029^*	2.444^*	2.214^*	2.620^*
		0.089	0.624	0.548	0.166	1.427
Keping		0.244	2.372^*	2.429^*	1.357	2.875^*
		0.404	2.567^*	2.552^*	1.483	3.300^*
		0.097	0.752	0.351	0.113	1.313
Kuche		0.430	1.852	0.423	2.145^*	2.494^*
		0.416	2.050^*	0.263	2.274^*	2.743^*
		0.093	0.331	0.023	0.141	0.585
Turgat		0.195	1.503	1.194	1.803	1.527
		0.283	1.379	1.225	1.874	1.667
		0.052	0.579	0.270	0.099	0.973
Wuqia		−0.260	1.462	1.698	0.065	1.251
		−0.342	1.599	1.579	0.062	1.281
		−0.129	0.796	0.365	0.014	1.054
Kashi		−0.195	1.121	2.527^*	0.390	1.129
		−0.223	1.150	2.547^*	0.499	1.055
		−0.067	0.182	0.297	0.041	0.466

: Mann–Kendall test, : Spearman’s Rho test, and : slope of linear regression.
Bold characters represent trends identified by 2 statistical methods together.
^*Statistically significant trends at the 5% significance level.