This study analyzes the duration and division of the flood season in the Fenhe River Basin over the period of 1957–2014 based on daily precipitation data collected from 14 meteorological stations. The Mann–Kendall detection, the multiscale moving t-test, and the Fisher optimal partition methods are used to evaluate the impact of climate change on flood season duration and division. The results ...

Based on climate data and social statistics of Guangzhou observatory from 1952 to 2014,this paper used Linear trend analysis, Morlet wavelet transform analysis, Mann-Kendall mutation test etc., to analyze the trend of climate change in Guangzhou nearly 65 years. The results showed that climatic conditions in Guangzhou in recent 65 years showed a warming and drying trend and this trend had becom...

Airborne particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 microns or less (PM2.5), as well as slightly bigger particles (PM10), arrive from the westerly direction and collect in the city centre of Tehran, the capital of Iran. The statistical characteristics and daily trend of the air quality index (AQI) in Theran were studied over an 11-year period (2002- 2012). Various statistical analyses were appli...

This study concentrates mainly on the 12-year time trends of annual average ion concentrations in bulk precipitation from 10 Estonian monitoring stations. Trends revealed by the nonparametric Mann-Kendall test mostly show a statistically significant decline and, according to the order of ion decline per year, three groups of stations could be differentiated: stations directly affected by an ind...

An upward trend in Ontario tornado frequency (about 1.6 tornadoes/decade with the statistically significant level at least at 95%) is identified using three independent approaches. The first method is the conventional linear regression method that had no disturbance to the original tornado time series. The second approach is to employ the Mann-Kendall test with consideration of removing a lag o...

As the main part in terrestrial ecosystems, vegetation is the result of long-term effect by variety natural factors of a region. In the same climatic regions, the heterogeneity of natural conditions is small and the vegetation also has certain homogeneity. These provide us a appropriate selection to analyze the vegetation change according to unique phonological characteristics of different regi...

The aim of this study was to investigate gaps between knowledge on HIV/AIDS and sexual behavior among teenagers. The study used a cross-sectional design with a representative random sample of 1,158 teenagers (14 to 19 years of age) enrolled in nine public secondary schools and who answered validated questionnaires. Data analysis included descriptive statistics and tests of hypotheses (chi-squar...

Creating innovative ways for the identification of trends is a very vital part atmospheric studies. Different climatic locations present their unique variations, calling dynamism trend analysis. In addition to widely adopted Mann–Kendall (MK) test, new Şen’s analysis (ITA) method has been applied analyze refractivity related (atmosphere pressure—AP, vapour pressure—VP, ambient temperature—T) an...

A hybrid algorithm of an enhanced version of Mann-Kendall trending and data analysis is proposed to solve the limitations of current technology in detecting and diagnosing cooling system refrigerant faults in general and refrigerant leakage specifically. A data abstraction mechanism is applied over feed of temperatures and power measurement to calculate and store only the significant informatio...