Extreme annual temperature of eighteen stations in Malaysia is fitted to the Generalized Extreme Value distribution. Stationary and non-stationary models with trend are considered for each station and the Likelihood Ratio test is used to determine the best-fitting model. Results show that three out of eighteen stations i.e. Bayan Lepas, Labuan and Subang favor a model which is linear in the location parameter. A hierarchical cluster analysis is employed to investigate the existence of similar behavior among the stations. Three distinct clusters are found in which one of them consists of the stations that favor the nonstationary model. T-year estimated return levels of the extreme temperature are provided based on the chosen models.
The issues on global warming have become very popular and been discussed both locally and internationally. This phenomenon due to the temperature rises will increase the variability of climate and more natural disasters were expected to occur. Increasing of global temperature will affect the agricultural sector, increase some of the infectious diseases that may lead to high mortality rates in humans, high demand for electricity, water and food which eventually affecting the economy of Malaysia. Hence, this work aims to study the best fitted probability distribution that describes the annual maximum temperature recorded at seventeen meteorological stations in Malaysia. The Normal, Lognormal, Gamma, Weibull and Generalized Skew Logistic distributions are considered using the maximum likelihood estimation method to estimate the parameters. The goodness of fit test and model selection criteria such as Kolmogorov-Smirnov and AndersonDarling tests, Corrected Akaike Information Criterion and Bayesian Information Criterion are used to measure the accuracy of the predicted data using theoretical probability distributions. The results show that most of the stations favour the Generalized Skew Logistic distribution as the best fitted probability distribution. Also, some stations favour the Normal, Lognormal as well as Weibull distribution as the best fitted distribution to describe the annual maximum temperature.
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