Discussion of "Critical Values for Sen's trend analysis" by Richard H. McCuen

Abstract

It is well appreciated that the author of the original paper tried toavoid the qualitative subjectivity and proposed a quantitative approach for trend identification in a given hydrometeorology timeseries. He considered that there are not quantitative publicationson S¸ en’s innovative trend analysis (ITA) in the literature, whichis not correct, because there are a few papers published on the quantitative ITA trend estimation methodology.