Characteristics of Rainfall in Peninsular Malaysia

Author:

Muhammad N S,Abdullah J,Julien P Y

Abstract

Abstract This study presents the rainfall statistics, conditional probability structure and statistical dependence of rainfall amount of several gauging stations located around Peninsular Malaysia, namely Subang, Senai and Kota Bharu. Daily rainfall measurements for all stations were collected from the Department of Meteorology, Malaysia are long and reliable, with at least 40 years of data. The average annual rainfall estimated for Kota Bharu, Subang and Senai are 2,627 ± 574 mm, 2581 ± 399 mm and 2499 ± 340 mm, respectively. The effect of monsoon seasons on the monthly rainfall amount is evident in this study. The most significant variation in the average monthly rainfall is noticed for Kota Bharu. There was some variation in the average monthly rainfall for Subang and Senai. The conditional probability structure for t-consecutive wet and dry days show that the multi-day events are time-dependent. For example, the probability of occurrence for a single dry day is 0.458, 0.453 and 0.553 and increased significantly to 0.696, 0.780 and 0.817 for 8-consecutive dry days at Subang, Senai and Kota Bharu, respectively. The dependence of rainfall amount was analyzed using the auto correlation function (ACF). The range of ACFs estimated for all stations were very low, i.e. 0.0050 to 0.0209, 0.0093 to 0.0857 and 0.0633 to 0.3700 for Subang, Senai and Kota Bharu, respectively. This result shows that the rainfall amounts are independent of each other. Overall, the analysis shows that the east coast region received more annual rainfall with higher variability, as compared to the central and south parts of Peninsular Malaysia. Additionally, the total amount of rainfall observed for all stations varies spatially and temporarily.

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Subject

General Physics and Astronomy

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