1- Fathian, F. (2012). “Assessment of land use changes using remote sensing techniques and hydroclimatic variable trends of Urmia river basin.” M.Sc. Thesis, Tarbiat Modares University (In Persian).
2- Chandler, R. E., and Scott, E. M. (2012). Statistical methods for trend detection and analysis in the environmental sciences, John Wiley and Sons, West Sussex, UK.
3- Xiong, L. and Guo, S. (2004). “Trend test and change-point detection for the annual discharge series of the Yangtze river at the Yichang hydrological station.” Hydrological Sciences Journal, 49(1), 99-112.
4- Kundzewicz, Z. W., and Robson, A. J. (2004). “Change detection in hydrological records—a review of the methodology.” Hydrological Sciences Journal, 49(1), 7-19.
5- Kundzewicz, Z. W., and Robson, A. J. (2000). Detecting trend and other changes in hydrological data, World Climate Program-Data and Monitoring, Geneva, 158.
6- Xu, Z. X., Takeuchi, K., and Ishidaira, H. (2003). “Monotonic trend and step changes in Japanese precipitation.” J. of Hydrology, 279(1-4), 144-150.
7- Wang, W., Shao, Q., Peng, S., Zhang, Z., Xing, W., An, G., and Yong, B. (2011). “Spatial and temporal characteristics of changes in precipitation during 1957-2007 in the Haihe River basin, China.” Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 25(7), 881-895.
8- Khaliq, M. N., Ouarda, T. B. M. J., Gachon, P., Sushama, L., and St-Hilaire, A. (2009). “Identification of hydrological trends in the presence of serial and cross correlations: A review of selected methods and their application to annual flow regimes of Canadian rivers.” J. of Hydrology, 368(1-4), 117-130.
9- Mavromatis, T., and Stathis, D. (2011). “Response of the water balance in Greece to temperature and precipitation trends.” Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 104 (1-2), 13-24.
10- Kahya, E., and Kalaycı, S. (2004). “Trend analysis of streamflow in Turkey.” J. of Hydrology, 289(1-4), 128-144.
11- Libiseller, C. (2004). “Comparison of methods for normalisation and trend testing of water quality data.” 15th Annual Conference of The International Environmetrics Society, Portland, USA.
12- Libiseller, C., and Grimvall, A. (2002). “Performance of partial Mann–Kendall tests for trend detection in the presence of covariates.” Environmetrics, 13(1), 71-84.
13- Smith, E. P., and Rose, K. A. (1991). “Trend detection in the presence of covariates: Stagewise versus multiple regression.” Environmetrics, 2(2), 153-168.
14- Pettitt, A. N. (1979). “A Non-parametric approach to the change-point problem.” J. of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), 28(2), 126-135.
15- Taylor, W. (2000). Change-Point Analyzer 2.0 shareware program, Taylor Enterprises, Libertyville, Illinois.
16- Love, D., Uhlenbrook, S., Twomlow, S., and Zaag, P. V. D. (2010). “Changing hydroclimatic and discharge patterns in the northern Limpopo Basin, Zimbabwe.” Water SA., 36, 335-350.
17- Fathian, F., and Morid, S. (2012). “Study of climate and hydrologic trends in Lake Urmia watershed using non-parametric methods.” Iranian Journal of Soil and Water Research, 43(3), 259-269. (In Persian).
18- Delju, A. H., Ceylan, A., Piguet, E., and Rebetez, M. (2013). “Observed climate variability and change in Urmia Lake Basin, Iran.” Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 111, 285-296.
19- Hamed, K. H., and Rao, A. R. (1998). “A modified Mann-Kendall trend test for autocorrelated data.” J. of Hydrology, 204(1-4), 182-196.
20- Mann, H. B. (1945). “Nonparametric tests against trend.” Econometrica, 13(3), 245-259.
21- Kendall, M. G. (1948). Rank correlation methods, Charles Griffin, London.
22- WMO. (1966). Climatic Change, WMO Technical Note No. 79, 79 pp.
23- Dahmen, E. R., and Hall, M. J. (1990). Screening of hydrological data, Netherlands, 58 pp.