Projected changes of future climate extremes in Malaysia

Mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change at regional level require downscaled projection of future climate states. This paper examined the possible changes of future climate extremes over Malaysia based on the IPCC SRES A1B emission scenario. The projected changes at 17 stations were...

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Main Authors:	Meng, Sei Kwan, Fredolin T. Tangang, Liew, Juneng
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2013
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6442/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6442/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6442/1/03._Meng_Sei_Kwan.pdf

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spelling	ukm-64422016-12-14T06:41:11Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6442/ Projected changes of future climate extremes in Malaysia Meng, Sei Kwan Fredolin T. Tangang, Liew, Juneng Mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change at regional level require downscaled projection of future climate states. This paper examined the possible changes of future climate extremes over Malaysia based on the IPCC SRES A1B emission scenario. The projected changes at 17 stations were produced by bias correcting the UKMO PRECIS downscaling simulation output. The simulation expected higher probability of rainfall extreme occurrences over the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia during the autumn transitional monsoon period. In addition, possible early monsoon rainfall was projected for certain stations located over East Malaysia. The simulation also projected larger increase of warm temperature extremes but smaller decrease of cold extremes, suggesting asymmetric expansion of the temperature distribution. The impact of the elevated green house gases (GHG) is higher in the night time temperature extremes as compared to the day time temperature extremes. The larger increment of warm night frequencies as compared to the warm day suggests smaller diurnal temperature ranges under the influence of higher greenhouse gases. Stations located in East Malaysia were projected to experience the largest increase of warm night occurrence. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2013-08 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6442/1/03._Meng_Sei_Kwan.pdf Meng, Sei Kwan and Fredolin T. Tangang, and Liew, Juneng (2013) Projected changes of future climate extremes in Malaysia. Sains Malaysiana, 42 (8). pp. 1051-1058. ISSN 0126-6039 http://www.ukm.my/jsm/
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description	Mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change at regional level require downscaled projection of future climate states. This paper examined the possible changes of future climate extremes over Malaysia based on the IPCC SRES A1B emission scenario. The projected changes at 17 stations were produced by bias correcting the UKMO PRECIS downscaling simulation output. The simulation expected higher probability of rainfall extreme occurrences over the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia during the autumn transitional monsoon period. In addition, possible early monsoon rainfall was projected for certain stations located over East Malaysia. The simulation also projected larger increase of warm temperature extremes but smaller decrease of cold extremes, suggesting asymmetric expansion of the temperature distribution. The impact of the elevated green house gases (GHG) is higher in the night time temperature extremes as compared to the day time temperature extremes. The larger increment of warm night frequencies as compared to the warm day suggests smaller diurnal temperature ranges under the influence of higher greenhouse gases. Stations located in East Malaysia were projected to experience the largest increase of warm night occurrence.
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author	Meng, Sei Kwan Fredolin T. Tangang, Liew, Juneng
spellingShingle	Meng, Sei Kwan Fredolin T. Tangang, Liew, Juneng Projected changes of future climate extremes in Malaysia
author_facet	Meng, Sei Kwan Fredolin T. Tangang, Liew, Juneng
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title	Projected changes of future climate extremes in Malaysia
title_short	Projected changes of future climate extremes in Malaysia
title_full	Projected changes of future climate extremes in Malaysia
title_fullStr	Projected changes of future climate extremes in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Projected changes of future climate extremes in Malaysia
title_sort	projected changes of future climate extremes in malaysia
publisher	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2013
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6442/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6442/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6442/1/03._Meng_Sei_Kwan.pdf
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Projected changes of future climate extremes in Malaysia

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