Developing and Demonstrating Climate Indicators for Monitoring the Changing Water Cycle

Table 3

Spatial correlation between the trend in mean and extremes indicators of , , , , , and over the CONUS. The coefficients are highlighted with asterisk mark if they are statistically nonsignificant at 5% level.

Indicators	Annual		Winter		Spring		Summer		Fall
	Dry extreme	Wet extreme	Dry extreme	Wet extreme	Dry extreme	Wet extreme	Dry extreme	Wet extreme	Dry extreme	Wet extreme
Mean	0.39	0.93	−0.15	0.87	0.45	0.86	0.29	0.92	0.16	0.86
Mean	0.57	0.91	0.83	0.92	0.78	0.92	0.92	0.93	0.70	0.94
Mean	0.35	0.90	0.13	0.88	0.24	0.87	0.26	0.84	0.15	0.89
Mean	0.09	0.03	0.12	0.66	0.28	0.50	0.38	0.45	−0.14	0.59
Mean	0.83	0.64	0.59	0.41	0.72	0.51	0.79	0.61	0.75	0.37
Mean	−0.05	0.15	−0.22	0.35	0.12	−0.02	−0.01	0.10	0.07	−0.04