Discussion of "Critical Values for Sen's trend analysis" by Richard H. McCuen

It is well appreciated that the author of the original paper tried toavoid the qualitative subjectivity and proposed a quantitative approach for trend identification in a given hydrometeorology timeseries. He considered that there are not quantitative publicationson S¸ en’s innovative trend analysis (ITA) in the literature, whichis not correct, because there are a few papers published on the quantitative ITA trend estimation methodology.