Research Article

Long-Term Variations of Temperature and Precipitation in the Megacity of Istanbul for the Development of Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change

Table 1

Statistical outputs of all tests for data quality control.

CasesNPar testsTest of normalityTest of homogeneity of variance
ParameterStationPeriodTotalValidMissingStd.Runs testKolmogorov-SmirnovANOVA
test
Levene’s test
(day)(%)(day)Sig.MeanTest valuesStatisticSig.Sig.StatisticSig.

minKandilli1965–20161898099.9%236.6−1370.010.510.50.0650.036.70.0210.0
Sarıyer18998100%16.7−1360.010.910.90.0610.0
Kandilli1st3835399.9%236.6−1700.010.410.70.670.068.60.01.830.17
2nd

avgKandilli1965–201618985100%47.1−1380.013.913.90.070.00.310.571.080.29
Sarıyer18998100%17.1−1350.013.913.80.0690.0
Kandilli1st38353100%47.1−1690.013.814.10.070.033.20.05.090.02
2nd

maxKandilli1965–20161899099.9%188.4−1300.018.618.60.070.02490.02040.0
Sarıyer18998100%17.8−1290.017.517.50.0680.0
Kandilli1st38335100%188.3−1610.018.318.80.060.089.40.027.20.0
2nd

Precip.Kandilli1965–2016769138.9%122389.6−130.06.126.120.260.01.040.311.350.24
Sarıyer785535%110749.2−100.06.276.30.02530.0
Kandilli1st3835337.1%241219.6−16.40.06.12.50.260.070.00.7990.37
2nd

a” means based on the median statistically; the significant level of test; “1st” shows first section of the studied period: 1912–1964; “2nd” shows second section of studied period: 1965–2016.