Assessment of CMIP5 historical simulations of rainfall over Southeast Asia

Theoretical and Applied Climatology - We present preliminary analyses of the historical (1986–2005) climate simulations of a ten-member subset of the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project...     

Regional climate simulations over Vietnam using the WRF model

Time-irreversible symmetry is a fundamental property of nonlinear time series. Time-irreversible behaviors of mean temperature measured on 182 stations over China from 1960 to 2012 are analyzed by directed horizontal visibility graph (DHVG for short), and significance of results has been estimated by Monte Carlo simulations. It is found that dominated time irreversibility emerges in nearly all daily temperature anomaly variations over China. Further studies indicate that these time-irreversible behaviors result from asymmetric distributions of persistent daily temperature increments and decrements, and this kind of symmetry can be quantified by distributions of consecutive daily mean temperature increasing or decreasing steps. At the same time, the findings above have been confirmed by artificially generated time series with given value of multiscale asymmetry.     

Seismological Activities in Malaysia

In this paper,the development of the National Seismic Network of Malaysia is described firest.Then,the maximum intensities on the Modified Mercalli(MM) scale experienced by Peninsular Malaysia and East Malaysia and the damage to man-made structures caused by earthquakes are analyzed.Finally,the seismicrisk management and strategy to mitigate seismic risk in Malaysia are outlined.     

Deriving short-duration rainfall IDF curves from a regional climate model

Natural Hazards - Climate change is expected to exacerbate the extremes in the climate variables. Being prone to harsh climate impacts, it is very crucial to study extreme rainfall-induced flooding...