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Table 2 Mann-Kendall results for temperature indices (1980 to 2012) in Boulgou Province

From: Adapting to the impacts of climate change in the sub-humid zone of Burkina Faso, West Africa: Perceptions of agro-pastoralists

Elements

Descriptive names

Mean

Standard deviation

Mann-Kendall tau

p value

Sen’s slope

TMAX mean

Mean annual maximum temperature

34.4

0.4

0.336

0.006*

0.02

TMIN mean

Mean annual minimum temperature

22.1

0.5

0.411

0.001*

0.027

TX10P

Cool day frequency

10.1

3.7

−0.313

0.011*

−0.204

TN10P

Cool night frequency

10.6

7.0

−0.277

0.025*

−0.185

TX90P

Warm day frequency

9.8

5.4

0.380

0.002*

0.307

TN90P

Warm night frequency

9.8

4.8

0.231

0.041*

0.154

  1. *Trend is statistically significant at p < 0.05