Study of maximum and minimum temperatures trends at Srinagar Garhwal Valley, Uttarakhand India

Abstract

This paper, attempts to study the variation in temperature over Srinagar Garhwal Valley of Uttarakhand, India, during the period 2010-2016. In the study assess the seven-year change in temperature has been evaluated by Mann–Kendall rank statistics and CV. The result indicates significant slightly increase in winter temperature at 0.01 level. It is observed that in valley of Srinagar Garhwal, Uttarakhand, coefficient of variation for mean temperature for Srinagar Garhwal Valley is highest in the month of December, it is observed as 75.87 % whereas it is lowest in the month of August, it is 27.40%. This means that mean temperature is most stable in the month of August and least stable in the month of December for the Srinagar Garhwal Valley.