At a given significance level, α , |UF i | > U α indicates a significant trend in the series.
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Climatic and drought characteristics in the loess hilly-gully region of China from 1957 to 2014.
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Except for the downward trends of the autumn and winter mean temperatures at Hequ, the seasonal and annual mean temperatures at the stations showed upward trends, including highly significant upward trends.
The results of the analysis of monthly precipitation trends ( Table 5 ) show that at the 11 synoptic stations, there was a decreasing trend in the precipitation of July, August and November, whereas both decreasing and increasing trends in the precipitation occurred of other months.
The results show that the increasing trend at each station started at a different time during the study period, but most of the meteorological stations mainly experienced an increasing trend after 1990, and the increasing trend has become significant since 2005.