a significant trendp = 0.01
a nonsignificant trendp > 0.1
Like the sea ice cover in the Barents Sea, the wintertime SST sBS index exhibits a nonsignificant trend ( p > 0.1) during the EARLY period followed by a significant trend ( p = 0.01) during the LATE period (see Fig. 2c for comparison of the standardised time series of SST sBS and SIA BS ).