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Table 4 The trend in annual minimum temperature of 115 years (1901–2016) of the 15 districts of Madhya Pradesh state of central India under study as per Mann–Kendall test and Sen’s estimator showing a significant increasing trend for minimum temperature in all the selected 15 districts of Madhya Pradesh except Chhatarpur district

From: Assessment of long-term climate variability and its impact on the decadal growth of horticultural crops in central India

Districts

Mann–Kendall statistics

Tau

P-value

Sen’s slope

Probable change

Balaghat

2166

0.324

0.000

0.006

50 (1950)

Bhind

2170

0.325

0.000

0.008

84 (1984)

Bhopal

1596

0.239

0.000

0.005

63 (1963)

Chhatarpur

24

0.003

0.956

0.000

102 (2002)

Chhindwara

1098

0.164

0.008

0.003

50 (1950)

Guna

2116

0.317

0.000

0.007

78 (1978)

Gwalior

2286

0.342

0.000

0.008

83 (1983)

Hoshangabad

2907

0.435

0.000

0.008

75 (1975)

Indore

2138

0.320

0.000

0.006

63 (1963)

Jabalpur

2810

0.421

0.000

0.007

63 (1963)

Khargone

3408

0.510

0.000

0.012

75 (1975)

Neemuch

1900

0.284

0.000

0.007

78 (1978)

Rewa

2850

0.427

0.000

0.009

84 (1984)

Sagar

2212

0.331

0.000

0.007

63 (1963)

Tikamgarh

2648

0.397

0.000

0.008

84 (1984)