Trends in rainfall and rainfall-related extremes in the east coast of peninsular Malaysia

Journal of Earth System Science

Volumn 124, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1609-1622

  Mayowa, Olaniya Olusegun ^a   Pour, Sahar Hadi ^a   Shahid, Shamsuddin ^a   Mohsenipour, Morteza ^a   Harun, Sobri Bin ^a   Heryansyah, Arien ^a   Ismail, Tarmizi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Coastline; Hydrological hazards; Rainfall indices; Rainfall trends

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTREME EVENT; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; TREND ANALYSIS;

MALAYSIA;

EID: 84951191518     PISSN: 23474327     EISSN: 0973774X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12040-015-0639-9     Document Type: Article

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