TROPICAL DAILY RAINFALL AMOUNT MODELLING USING MARKOV CHAIN-MIXED EXPONENTIAL (MCME)
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https://doi.org/10.11113/jt.v74.4885Keywords:
MCME, Markov chain, mixed exponential distribution, daily rainfall, rainfall stationAbstract
This study is concerned with the development of a stochastic rainfall model that can generate many sequences of synthetic daily rainfall series with the similar properties as those of the observed. The proposed model is Markov chain-mixed exponential (MCME). This model is based on a combination of rainfall occurrence (represented by the first-order two-state Markov chain) and the distribution of rainfall amounts on wet days (described by the mixed exponential distribution). The feasibility of the MCME model is assessed using daily rainfall data from four rainfall stations (station S02, S05, S07 and S11) in Johor, Malaysia. For all the rainfall stations, it was found that the proposed MCME model was able to describe adequately rainfall occurrences and amounts. Various statistical and physical properties of the daily rainfall processes also considered. However, the validation results show that the models’ predictive ability was not as accurate as their descriptive ability. The model was found to have fairly well ability in predicting the daily rainfall process at station S02, S05 and S07. Nonetheless, it was able to predict the daily rainfall process at station S11 accurately.Â
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