Table 1: Regional trends of annual and seasonal precipitation. +:
increasing trend, - : decreasing trend. On the left: Spearman test, on the right:
Kendall
test.ln bold: significant test.
Year
Autumn
Winter
Spring
Regions
scores
moving
scores
moving
scores
moving
scores
moving
averaQes
averaQes
averaqes
averaQes
Atlantic region
+
+
+ +
- -
- - +
+
+ + - - - -
North Africa
+
+
+ + +
+
+
+
-
-
- - - -
- -
Libya
- - - -
Near East
- -
- - + +
+
+
-
- - - + +
+ +
Egypt
Cyprus and Cairo
-
- I + +
-
-
-
-
Cyprus
- -
- -
Gulfs of Lions and Valencia
- - - -
- - - - -
- - - +
+
~
~
Greece
- - - - + + + +
-
-
-
- + +
- +
Gulf of Genoa
- - - - +
- + +
+
+
+ + -
-
-
-
Italy
- - I -
-
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