Statistical modeling of daily extreme rainfall in Colombo

dc.contributor.authorVarathan, N
dc.contributor.authorPerera, K
dc.contributor.authorWikramanayake, N
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-14T18:04:36Z
dc.date.available2013-11-14T18:04:36Z
dc.date.issued2013-11-14
dc.description.abstractThe occurrence of heavy rainfalls in Sri Lanka results in significant damage to agriculture, ecology, infrastructure systems, disruption of human activities, injuries and the loss of life. The modelling of extreme rainfall has to be developed to manage the natural resources and the built environment to face the impacts of climate change. The main goal of this study is to find the best fitting distribution to the extreme daily rainfalls measured over the Colombo region for the years 1900-2009 by using the maximum likelihood approach. The study also predicts the extreme rainfalls for return periods and their confidence bands. In this study extreme rainfall events are defined by two different methods based on (1) the annual maximums of the daily rainfalls and (2) the daily rainfalls exceeds some specific threshold value. The Generalized Extreme Value distribution and the Generalized Pareto distribution are fitted to data corresponding to the methods 1 and 2 to describe the extremes of rainfall and to predict its future behaviour. Finally we find the evidence to suggest that the Gumbel distribution provides the most appropriate model for the annual maximums of daily rainfall and the Exponential distribution gives the reasonable model for the daily rainfall data over the threshold value of 100mm for the Colombo location. We derive estimates of 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 years return levels and its corresponding confidence intervals for extreme daily rainfalls.en_US
dc.identifier.conferenceInternational Conference on Sustainable Built Environments 2010en_US
dc.identifier.emailvarathan10@gmail.comen_US
dc.identifier.emailkanthip@pdn.ac.lken_US
dc.identifier.emailtomwiks@yahoo.comen_US
dc.identifier.placeEarl's Regency Hotel, Kandy.en_US
dc.identifier.proceedingSustainable Built Environmentsen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://dl.lib.mrt.ac.lk/handle/123/9160
dc.identifier.year2010en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectAnnual maximumen_US
dc.subjectThreshold valueen_US
dc.subjectGeneralized Extreme Value distributionen_US
dc.subjectPareto distributionen_US
dc.subjectMaximum likelihood estimationen_US
dc.titleStatistical modeling of daily extreme rainfall in Colomboen_US
dc.typeConference-Full-texten_US

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