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Relationship between minimum inter‐event time and the number of rainfall events in Peninsular Malaysia
Author(s) -
Chin Ren Jie,
Lai Sai Hin,
Chang Kian Boon,
Jaafar Wan Zurina Wan,
Othman Faridah
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
weather
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.467
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1477-8696
pISSN - 0043-1656
DOI - 10.1002/wea.2766
Subject(s) - event (particle physics) , range (aeronautics) , environmental science , climatology , duration (music) , geography , meteorology , geology , art , materials science , physics , literature , quantum mechanics , composite material
The minimum inter‐event time (MIT) between two wet periods has to be set in order to separate rainfall events. The objective of this study is to analyse the effect of MIT on rainfall events in Peninsular Malaysia. Rainfall event data from 16 rainfall stations, containing the annual number of rainfall events together with the number of events that exceed a certain range of duration values, have been extracted using RainEMT. It is found that the average total number of rainfall events will be higher with smaller MIT values.