Assessing Changes in Characteristics of Hot Extremes Over India in a Warming Environment and their Driving Mechanisms.

The station data over India shows an increasing trend in the frequency of hot days (especially over the eastern and western coasts as well as over the interior peninsula) 23 and a widespread increase in the intensity of those events (i.e., out of 121 stations considered, 70% of stations illustrate an increasing trend) during the last three decades of the 20 th century 24 .

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To detect the presence of a significant trend, non-parametric Mann-Kendall statistics 18 , 55 , 61 – 63 is applied.

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