Table 1.

Summary statistics for the annual precipitation and potential evapotranspiration analysis at 13 stations in the Tarim River Basin during 1960~2015.

Meteorological station	Annual precipitation			Annual potential evapotranspiration
	Abrupt change	Trend	Significance	Abrupt change	Trend	Significance
Aheqi	1990	↑	*	1986	↓	**
Aksu	1991	↑	*	1987	↓	**
Bachu	1986	↑	*		/
Baicheng	1986	↑	**	1986	↓	**
Kuche	1987	↑	*	1986	↓	**
Kuerle	1986	↑	*	1986	↓	**
Minfeng	1986	↑	*	1987	↓	**
Pishan	1986	↑	*	1986	↓	**
Ruoqiang		/		1986	↓	**
Shache	1986	↑	*		/
Tashikuerg	1987	↑	*	1986	↓	*
Tieganlik		/		1986	↓	**
Yutian	1986	↑	*		/

Notes: In the Pettitt test, **indicates significant level of 0.1%, *indicates significant level exceeds 5%, ↑(↓) indicates an increasing(decreasing) trend, and/indicates unremarkable change trend.