Publication: Trend in annual extreme rainfall events of 1 to 5 days duration over peninsular Malaysia
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Date
2012
Authors
Yasmin Nadirah Hanafiah Kamal Bahrin
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This thesis reports the trends in annual extreme rainfall of 1 to 5 days duration over peninsular Malaysia. The objective of this study is to analyse whether the rainfall distribution over peninsular Malaysia show trend or not. Rainfall distribution of more than 35 years back are analysed to detect for trends. The length of record of annual extreme data is selected in a way that they do not contain less than 30 years of record. Selected stations throughout peninsular Malaysia are selected in collecting the daily rainfall data which later are extracted to obtain the maximum rainfall of every year of record. Statistical methods are being adopted in this study to detect trends in annual extreme rainfall because. Altogether 5 statistical tests are used in the analysis to detect any sign of significant trends. Results from the analysis showed that out of 34 stations being analysed, only 4 shows significant positive trends in their annual extreme rainfall series with most of the stations located at southwest region of peninsular Malaysia.
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QC925.5.M34 Y37 2012
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Rain and rainfall