Analysis of daily rainfall during 2001-2012 in Thailand

The presented study aims to classify precipitation regions, analyze trends, and fit an appropriate model for daily precipitation in Thailand. Factor analysis and generalized linear model (GLM) with gamma regression are performed on the historical records of daily rainfall amounts from 114 weather st...

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Published inWārasān Songkhlā Nakharin Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 81 - 88
Main Authors Mayuening Eso, Metta Kuning, Somporn Chuai-Aree
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Prince of Songkla University 01.02.2015
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daily precipitation
daily rainfall
factor analysis
gamma regression
GLM
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Summary:The presented study aims to classify precipitation regions, analyze trends, and fit an appropriate model for daily precipitation in Thailand. Factor analysis and generalized linear model (GLM) with gamma regression are performed on the historical records of daily rainfall amounts from 114 weather stations during 2001 to 2012. The study shows that the factor analysis divides the area of Thailand into seven regions with explanation of 58.9% of the total variance. The conducted gamma models reveal a good fit for the upper part, south-east, and south-west of the examined regions. The deviance residual plots from these models also provide a reasonable fit.
ISSN:0125-3395