Abstract

The present study comprises the annual trends of different climatic variables for Karjat, Maharashtra, India. The trend analysis for different climatic variables such as maximum and minimum temperature, rainfall, maximum relative humidity, minimum relative humidity, wind speed and sunshine hours was carried out for 25 years from 1991–2015. The linear regression trend analysis was carried out for maximum temperature, minimum temperature, rainfall, morning and afternoon relative humidity, bright sunshine hours and wind speed for annual. For confirmation of trend, Mann-Kendall test was carried out for Karjat location. The trend analysis showed that trend increased for all parameters except afternoon relative humidity and bright sunshine hours, and statistically significant at 95% level of significance in case of minimum temperature.