Research Article
Assessment of Seasonal and Annual Rainfall Trends and Variability in Sharjah City, UAE
Table 3
Mean annual rainfall trend: MK statistics (one-tailed with 5% significance interval) for the different aggregated periods with and without autocorrelation.
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p value calculated using standard Mann-Kendall test. p value calculated using Monte Carlo Simulation taking autocorrelation into account by the methodof Yue and Wang [16]. p value calculated using Monte Carlo Simulation taking autocorrelation into account by the method of Hamed and Rao [17]. The values of LRS and SS in bold correspond to a statistically significant trend with reference to one or more aforementioned MK tests. |