Developing and calibrating a stochastic rainfall generator model for simulating daily rainfall by Markov chain approach

Jurnal Teknologi

Volumn 76, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 13-19

  Dlamini, N S ^a   Rowshon, M K ^a   Saha, Ujjwal ^b   Fikri, A ^a   Lai, S H ^c   Mohd, M S F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^d Department of Water Resources Research Centre and Climate Change NAHRIM   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Malaysia; Markov chain; Paddy; Rainfall; Transition probabilities; Weather generator (WGEN)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945296965     PISSN: 01279696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11113/jt.v76.5946     Document Type: Article

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