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. 2020 Nov 25;10:20514. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-76873-x

Table 3.

Summary statistics of temporal trends for the thermal metrics across both time periods.

Thermal metric Time period Median slope 25th percentile 75th percentile n lakes % lakes increasing % lakes decreasing
Surface water temperature (°C decade−1) 1970–2009 0.37* 0.23 0.56 30 90% 7%
1990–2009 0.33* − 0.12 0.78 99 69% 29%
Deepwater temperature (°C decade−1) 1970–2009 0.06 − 0.01 0.21 30 63% 27%
1990–2009 − 0.05 − 0.31 0.20 97 38% 54%
Mean water column temperature (°C decade−1) 1970–2009 0.19* 0.09 0.30 30 87% 13%
1990–2009 0.05 − 0.22 0.27 97 54% 46%
Density difference (kg m−3 decade−1) 1970–2009 0.08* 0.03 0.12 30 87% 13%
1990–2009 0.06* − 0.02 0.18 97 69% 31%
Thermocline depth (m decade−1) 1970–2009 0.03* 0.00 1.22 28 79% 18%
1990–2009 0.00 − 0.20 0.28 92 40% 47%

Summaries were based on Sen’s slopes from each individual lake. Asterisks indicate overall significant change across all lakes (1-sample Wilcoxon rank sum tests, p < 0.05). Percent of lakes increasing and decreasing represents all lakes, and does not necessarily add up to 100% due to a small percentage of lakes with a Sen’s slope of zero.