717
Views
38
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research papers

Homogeneity and trends in long-term rainfall data, Kelantan River Basin, Malaysia

, , &
Pages 151-163 | Received 27 Dec 2014, Accepted 23 Sep 2015, Published online: 05 Feb 2016

References

  • Alexandersson, H. and Moberg, A., 1997. Homogenization of Swedish temperature data. Part 1: homogeneity test for linear trends. International Journal of Climatology, 17, 25–34. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0088(199701)17:1<25::AID-JOC103>3.0.CO;2-J
  • Bingham, C. and Nelson, L.S., 1981. An approximation for the distribution of the von Neumann ratio. Technometrics, 23 (3), 285–288. doi: 10.2307/1267792
  • Birsan, M., et al., 2005. Streamflow trends in Switzerland. Journal of Hydrology, 314 (1–4), 312–329. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2005.06.008
  • Buishand, T A., 1982. Some methods for testing the homogeneity of rainfalls records. Journal of Hydrology, 58, 11–27. doi: 10.1016/0022-1694(82)90066-X
  • Cao, L.-J. and Yan, Z.-W., 2012. Progress in research on homogenization of climate data. Advances in Climate Change Research, 3 (2), 59–67. doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1248.2012.00059
  • Climate Prediction Center. 2015. Changes to the Oceanic Niño Index (ONI), NOAA, USA. Available from: http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/ensostuff/ensoyears.shtml [Accessed 31 May 2015].
  • Costa, A.C. and Soares, A., 2009. Homogenization of climate data; review and new perspective using geostatistics. Mathematical Geosciences, 41, 291–305. doi: 10.1007/s11004-008-9203-3
  • De Lima, M.I.P., et al., 2005. “Precipitation trends in Mainland Portugal in the period 1941–2000.” The Fourth Inter-Celtic Colloquium on Hydrology and Management of Water Resources, Guimarăes, Portugal.
  • Department of Drainage and Irrigation Malaysia (DID), 2009. DID Manual Volume 1 – Flood Management. Kuala Lumpur.
  • Department of Drainage and Irrigation Malaysia (DID), 2013. Department of Drainage and Irrigation Malaysia. Laporan banjir tahunan bagi Semenanjung Malaysia. Unpublished report. Kuala Lumpur.
  • Gilbert, R.O., 1987. Statistical methods for environmental pollution monitoring. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
  • Hamed, K.H., 2008. Trend detection in hydrologic data: the Mann–Kendall trend test under the scaling hypothesis. Journal of Hydrology, 349 (3–4), 350–363. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.11.009
  • Hawkins, P.M., 1977. Testing a sequence of observations for a shift in location. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 72, 180–186. doi: 10.1080/01621459.1977.10479935
  • Heino, R., 1994. Climate in Finland during the period of meteorological observations (Finnish Meteorological Institute Contributions). Helsinki, Finland: Finnish Meteorological Institute.
  • Helsel, D.R. and Hirsch, R.M., 2002. Statistical method in water resources techniques of water resources investigations [online]. Book 4, Chapter A3, U.S Geological Survey. Available from: http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/twri/twri4a3. [Accessed 2 June 2014].
  • Hsu, P-C., et al., 2013. Impacts of two types of El Niño and La Niña events on typhoon activity. Advances in Meteorology, 2013, 8 pages. doi:10.1155/2013/632470.
  • Jarušková, D., 1996. Change-point detection in meteorological measurement. American Meteorological Society, 124, 1535–1543.
  • Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), 2015. Aging of the annual precipitation amount deviation of the world (1901–2014 years) [online] Japan. Available from: http://www.data.jma.go.jp/cpdinfo/temp/an_wld_r.html [Accessed 29 August 2015].
  • Kang, H.M. and Fadhilah, Y., 2012. Homogeneity tests on daily rainfall series in Peninsular Malaysia. International Journal of Contemporary Mathematical Sciences, 7 (1), 9–22.
  • Kendall, M.G., 1975. Rank correlation methods. London: Griffin.
  • Kisi, O. and Ay, M., 2014. Comparison of Mann–Kendall and innovative trend method for water quality parameters of the Kizilirmak River, Turkey. Journal of Hydrology, 513 (26), 362–375. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.03.005
  • Klein Tank, A.M.G., 2007. Algorithm theoretical basis document (ATBD), European Climate Assessment & Dataset (ECA&D) project document, KNM 38.
  • Mann, H.B., 1945. Nonparametric tests against trend. Econometrica, 13, 245–259. doi: 10.2307/1907187
  • Mestre, O., et al., 2013. HOMER: A homogenization software—methods and applications. Quarterly Journal of the Hungarian Meteorological Service, 117 (1), 47–67.
  • Peterson, T.C., et al., 1998. Homogeneity adjustment of in situ atmospheric climate data: a review. International Journal of Climatology, 18 (13), 1493–1517. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0088(19981115)18:13<1493::AID-JOC329>3.0.CO;2-T
  • Pettitt, A.N., 1979. A non-parametric approach to the change-point problem. Applied Statistics, 28, 126–135. doi: 10.2307/2346729
  • Philbert, M.L., Edmund, M. and Hashim, K.N., 2014. Homogeneity of monthly mean air temperature of the United Republic of Tanzania with HOMER. Atmospheric and Climatic Science, 4, 70–77. doi: 10.4236/acs.2014.41010
  • Sahin, S. and Cigizoglu, H.K., 2010. Homogeneity analysis of Turkish meteorological data set. Hydrological Processes, 24 (8), 981–992. doi: 10.1002/hyp.7534
  • Sen, P.K., 1968. Estimates of the regression coefficients based on Kendall's tau. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 63 (324), 1379–1389. doi: 10.1080/01621459.1968.10480934
  • Suhaila, J., Sayang, M.D., and Jemain, A.A., 2008. Detecting inhomogeneity of rainfall series in Peninsular Malaysia. Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 44 (4), 368–380.
  • Suhaila, J., et al., 2010. Trends in Peninsular Malaysia rainfall data during the southwest monsoon and northeast monsoon seasons: 1975–2004. Sains Malaysiana, 39 (4), 533–542.
  • Theil, H., 1950. A rank invariant method of linear and polynomial regression analysis. Part III. Proceeding of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, 53, 1397–1412.
  • Tuomenvirta, T., 2002. Homogeneity testing and adjustment of climatic times-series in Finland. Geophysica, 38 (1–2), 15–41.
  • Von Neumann, J., 1941. Distribution of the ratio of the mean square successive difference to the variance. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 12, 367–395. doi: 10.1214/aoms/1177731677
  • Wijngaard, J.B., Klein Tank, A.M.G. and Können, G.P., 2003. Homogeneity of 20th century European daily temperature and precipitation series. International Journal of Climatology, 23, 679–692. doi: 10.1002/joc.906
  • Yue, S., Pilon, P. and Cavadias, G., 2002. Power of the Mann–Kendall and Spearman's Rho tests for detecting monotonic trends in hydrological series. Journal of Hydrology, 259 (1–4), 254–271. doi: 10.1016/S0022-1694(01)00594-7
  • Yue, S., et al., 2002. The influence of autocorrelation on the ability to detect trend in hydrological series. Journal of Hydrology, 16 (9), 1807–1829.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.