Research Article
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 |
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: 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.
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