The objective of the current study is to investigate and evaluate the annual and seasonal rainfall trends and patterns of the Punjab province, Pakistan during the 1981-2015. The spatial patterns and temporal trends were identified through the Modified Mann Kendall test. Finding revealed that 13 weather stations of Punjab province have shown the statistically significant decreasing trend of annual and summer monsoon rainfall during the study period. From further investigation, the rainfall during the summer monsoon period (JJAS) found to be increased by 12.45%, similarly the rainfall during the whole of year be also increased by 18.75%. The significant decreasing trends observed with the higher percentage change in annual and monsoon rainfall for the stations of Sialkot and Lahore in the northern and central Punjab. The empirical evidences suggested that northern Punjab gets more moisture as compared the Southern and Western Punjab. This study suggests intensive empirical research in the future to evolve further spatio-temporal trends in the rainfall pattern of Punjab.

Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Material and Methods
    1) Study Area
    2) Data
3. Results and Discussion
    1) Spatial pattern of annual and monsoon rainfall
    2) Temporal trend of annual and monsoon rainfall
4. Conclusions
Referances

• Saadia Sultan Wahla(Department of Geography, Govt. Postgraduate College for Women)
• Safdar Ali Shirazi(Department of Geography, University of the Punjab) Correspondence
• Sohail Abbas(Department of Geography, Konkuk University)
• Mian Sabir Hussain(Climate Research institute, Konkuk University)
• Seungho Lee(Department of Geography, Konkuk University)