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Rainfall is the important factor in hydrological cycle having spatial and temporal variability. The present study deals with the identification of nature of rainfall trend at Malegaon. The study area is categorized as semiarid region having an area of 1825.13 km2. The average annual rainfall for Malegaon is 580.5 mm and prone to drought. In this study, daily rainfall data of Malegaon for period of 34 years were collected and analyzed. The total annual rainfall series was checked for normality and serial correlations before applying trend tests. The trend of rainfall time series of total monthly rainfall is obtained by applying Mann–Kendall test and Sen’s slope test. The investigation is based on the results of the monthly rainfall data using non parametric test. The nature of rainfall trends for long period of Malegaon shows decreasing trend. Further, the overall variability in the total annual rainfall has been quantified by computing rainfall variability index which shows most of the years of the study area as dry period.
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Ramkar, P., Yadav, S.M. (2019). Rainfall Trend Analysis Using Nonparametric Test: A Case Study of Malegaon City. In: Rathinasamy, M., Chandramouli, S., Phanindra, K., Mahesh, U. (eds) Water Resources and Environmental Engineering II. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2038-5_3
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