Table 2.

Two-tailed Spearman correlation analysis of seasonally and spatially aggregated rainfall variables

Region	Spatial aggregation	None		100 km		250 km		500 km
	Variable	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p
Kimberley	ew	0.3717	≤ 0.01	0.3753	≤ 0.01	0.4261	≤ 0.01	0.4098	≤ 0.01
	ehw	0.4225	≤ 0.01	0.4569	≤ 0.01	0.4896	≤ 0.01	0.4732	≤ 0.01
	cw	0.4315	≤ 0.01	0.437	≤ 0.01	0.4696	≤ 0.01	0.4551	≤ 0.01
	hw	0.4303	≤ 0.01	0.4582	≤ 0.01	0.4979	≤ 0.01	0.4758	≤ 0.01
	lw	0.3437	≤ 0.01	0.3142	≤ 0.01	0.3260	< 0.01	0.3172	≤ 0.01
Pilbara	ew	0.4925	≤ 0.01	0.5117	≤ 0.01	0.5368	≤ 0.01	0.5656	≤ 0.01
	ehw	0.4649	≤ 0.01	0.4865	≤ 0.01	0.4829	≤ 0.01	0.4733	≤ 0.01
	cw	0.4446	≤ 0.01	0.4709	≤ 0.01	0.4649	≤ 0.01	0.4625	≤ 0.01
	hw	0.5538	≤ 0.01	0.5672	≤ 0.01	0.5493	≤ 0.01	0.5466	≤ 0.01
	lw	0.2435	≤ 0.05	0.2587	≤ 0.02	0.2139	≤ 0.05	≥ 0.05	≥ 0.05