Principal component analysis of observed and modeled diurnal rainfall in the maritime continent

• Main Authors: Teo, Chee Kiat, Koh, Tieh Yong, Lo, Jeff Chun Fung, Bhatt, Bhuwan Chandra
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Geology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/94043; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8222
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Principal component analysis (PCA) is able to diagnose the diurnal rain cycle in the Maritime Continent into two modes that explain most of the diurnal variability in the region. The first mode results from the differential variation in potential instability forced by surface heat flux, insolation,...