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Table 3 Annual rainfall Mann-Kendall’s trend test results

From: Time series trend analysis of temperature and rainfall in lake Tana Sub-basin, Ethiopia

Station

No. years

Mann–Kendall’s test, (H0: there is no trend)

Mann–Kendall stat (S)

Var. (S)

Kendall’s tau

P-value

α

Bahir Dar

49

−231.00

16991.667

−0.168

0.078*

0.05

Yifag

33

−158.000

4165.333

−0.299

0.015**

0.05

Hamusit

44

−196.000

9766.000

−0.208

0.048**

0.05

Zeghie

34

−230.00

16900.667

−0.192

0.040**

0.05

Dangila

35

5.000

1257.667

0.022

0.910*

0.05

Maksegnit

32

−170.000

3798.000

−0.344

0.006**

0.05

DebreTabor

39

−178.000

7360.000

−0.229

0.039**

0.05

Injibara

30

−28.000

1256.667

−0.121

0.446*

0.05

Sekela

32

47.000

1257.667

0.203

0.195*

0.05

Gundil

31

46.000

1200.667

0.201

0.105*

0.05

  1. * As the computed p-value is greater than the significance level alpha = 0.05, one cannot reject the null
  2. hypothesis H0
  3. ** As the computed p-value is lower than the significance level alpha = 0.05 reject the null hypothesis H0