Climate change and spatio-temporal trend analysis of climate extremes in the homogeneous climatic zones of Pakistan during 1962-2019

2. TN10p, TX10p and TR20, CSDI and PRECPTOT have decreasing trend particularly during the 1991–2019 in most parts of the country. 3. Precipitation has increasing trend in DJF while temperature has decreasing trend in JJA during the 1962–1990 at the stations located in the Karakoram region. 4. During the last decade (2010–2019), precipitation and temperature have decreasing and increasing trend, respectively, at the stations located in the Karakoram region. 5. Based on the points in 3 and 4, the glaciers in the Karakoram region may loses mass balance slightly in the near future, which is in contrast to the famous Karakoram Anomaly. Supporting information S1 Data. (XLSX) Acknowledgments The authors are grateful to Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) for providing meteo- rological data. Author Contributions Conceptualization: Firdos Khan. Data curation: Firdos Khan, Sher Muhammad. Formal analysis: Firdos Khan. Investigation: Firdos Khan. Methodology: Christoph Mayer. Software: Firdos Khan, Shaukat Ali. Visualization: Firdos Khan, Hamd Ullah. Writing – original draft: Firdos Khan. Writing – review & editing: Shaukat Ali, Christoph Mayer, Hamd Ullah, Sher Muhammad. References 1. Hegerl, G.C., et al., 2010. Good practice guidance paper on detection and attribution related to anthro- pogenic climate change. In: Stocker, T. G., et al. (Eds.), Meeting report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Expert Meeting on Detection and Attribution of Anthropogenic Climate Change. IPCC Working Group I Technical Support Unit, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, p.8pps.

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