MANN-KENDALL TEST: TREND ANALYSIS OF TEMPERATURE, RAINFALL AND DISCHARGE OF GHOTKI FEEDER CANAL IN DISTRICT GHOTKI, SINDH, PAKISTAN

Shoukat Ali Shah () and Madeeha Kiran
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Shoukat Ali Shah: Institute of Water Resources Engineering and Management, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan
Madeeha Kiran: School of Environmental Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China

Environment & Ecosystem Science (EES), 2021, vol. 5, issue 2, 137-142

Abstract: Temperature and precipitation variations have huge environmental, socio-economic impacts. This study aims to detect the trend of temperature, precipitation, and discharge from 2000-2020 in the district Ghotki. Mann Kendal test and Sen’s slope were applied by using XLSTAT in MS Excel to investigate the significance of all trends. The results showed that the annual rainfall trend was increased with the highest intensity noted in 2003; 275mm and 2010; 271 mm. The trend in the monsoon season was increased with the highest slope 0.863 by comparing with non-monsoon which showed the slope was 0.642. The annual temperature was increased an average temperature recorded in 2016; 28.5 & 2018; 28 °C. Further, the summer-autumn season's trend has sharply increased. While the trend of Ghotki feeder discharge was slightly increased in January due to the continuous flow of water and less demand for water during the Rabi season. But in July, the highest discharge was recorded in 2010 due to heavy rainfall and flood situations over the study area. The trend in Kharif was continuously declined due to farmers started sowing sugarcane crops instead of rice and cotton which need less irrigation water. It is concluded that the performance of MK and SS tests was consistent at the verified significance level.

Keywords: Trend analysis; Sen’s slope; Climate variability; Non-parametric test; flow rate. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.26480/ees.02.2021.137.142

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