Regional frequency analysis with L-Moments of extremes rainfall in Peninsular Malaysia

摘要

Extreme rainfall may cause problems to the social, environmental and ecology. In this paper, we focused on regional frequency analysis of extremes rainfall based on 3-hourly rainfall records by TRMM 3B42 and raingauge data between 1998-2012 at 30 stations of Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysia. Based on the L-Moments method, we developed the regional extreme rainfall frequency analysis in measuring discordancy, regional homogeneity and the goodness-of-fit test to determine the best regional parent distribution. The Wards method is presented to identify the homogenous regions in Peninsular Malaysia and produce 4 acceptably homogeneous regions that had been tested by the L-Moments method. The results show that the L-Moments method is good in term of performance, simplicity and robustness.