Skip to main content
Environmental Systems Research

Table 5 Mann-Kendall trend test of annual temperature

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

H0: There is no trend

Temperature

No. years

Kendall’s (S)

Var. (S)

Kendall’s tau

P-value

α

LSB

 Tmax.

49

96.000

4165.33

0.182

0.141*

0.05

 Tmin.

33

−55.000

4548.33

-0.098

0.423*

0.05

 Tmean

44

392.000

16991.33

0.285

0.003**

0.05

USB

 Tmax.

34

35.000

7351.00

0.045

0.692*

0.05

 Tmin.

35

264.000

7346.00

0.342

0.002**

0.05

 Tmean

32

143.000

7363.67

0.184

0.098*

0.05

  1. * As the computed p-value is greater than the significance level alpha = 0.05, one cannot reject the null H0
  2. ** As the computed p-value is lower than the significance level α = 0.05, one can reject the null hypothesis H0
Back to article page