Trend analysis for some climate variables of selected stations in Iraq

Abstract EN

This search deal with the effect of worldwide global warming on surface air temperature, relativity humidity and rainfall for selected stations in Iraq.

Monthly surface air temperature, relativity humidity and rainfall were analysed to get temporal trends variation with the period (1984-1999) by using Mann-Kendall test to detect the significant trend.

The test showed that surface air temperature and relativity humidity had a positive trend at all station with a highest value in Basrah station (0.085) and (0.344) respectively, while the test for rainfall showed a negative trend at all stations with a highest decreasing value (-1.606) in Basrah station too.