The rainfall and discharge trends of Surma River area in North-eastern part of Bangladesh: an approach for understanding the impacts of climatic change

Environmental Systems Research

Table 6 Correlation between seasonal mean discharge and mean rainfall from 1973 to 16

Independent variable (rainfall)	Dependent variable (discharge)	r-value	P.E (r)	R²	R² in %	Significance
Winter	Winter	0.49	0.07	0.24	24.01	Significant
Pre-monsoon	Pre-monsoon	0.57	0.06	0.32	31.49	Significant
Monsoon	Monsoon	0.61	0.63	0.37	37.21	Insignificant
Post-monsoon	Post-monsoon	0.64	0.06	0.40	40.96	Significant