A comparison of the rainfall patterns between stations on the East and the West coasts of Peninsular Malaysia using the smoothing model of rainfall amounts

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 391-401

  Suhaila, Jamaludin ^a   Jemain, Abdul Aziz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Daily rainfall; Deviance; Fourier series; Gamma distributions; Generalized linear model

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; FOURIER SERIES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAIN GAGES;

DAILY RAINFALL; DAILY RAINFALL SERIES; DEVIANCE; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; RAINFALL PATTERNS; SMOOTHING PARAMETER; SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES;

RAIN;

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOURIER TRANSFORM; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SMOOTHING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WEATHER STATION;

MALAYSIA; WEST MALAYSIA;

EID: 70349435633     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.137     Document Type: Article

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