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Research Title REGIONALIZATION OF RAINFALL IN NORTHEASTERN THAILAND 
Date of Distribution 21 November 2019 
Conference
     Title of the Conference 9th Inter-Conference on Geotechnique, Construction Materials and Environment 
     Organiser International Journal of GEOMATE 
     Conference Place Hotel Continental Fuchu 
     Province/State Tokyo Japan 
     Conference Date 20 November 2019 
     To 22 November 2019 
Proceeding Paper
     Volume 2019 
     Issue ISBN: 978-4-909106025 C3051 
     Page 963-969 
     Editors/edition/publisher Prof. Zakaria Hossain 
     Abstract Rainfall is one of the most valuable natural resources for northeastern Thailand, a region whose livelihood of more than 80% of the population depend predominantly on rainfed agriculture. Rainfall events can also cause severe natural hazard, therefore proper water resources and flood management is crucial to this region. Regionalization of rainfall can facilitate the management of water resources and floods by delineating a region with rainfall patterns that vary in both time and space into areas with more homogeneous rainfall characteristics. This study applied both hierarchical and K-means clustering methods to separate the entire Northeast into three precipitation zones using monthly rainfall data from 38 stations over 30 years from 1987 to 2016. The temporal variation of zoning was also investigated by dividing the data into three 10-year periods, 1987-1996, 1997-2006, and 2007-2016. The regionalization by both methods gave similar results that are comparable to the mean annual rainfall of the entire region. Mean annual rainfall values were highest in the northeastern part of the region with a gradual decreasing trend to the southwest. The clustering methods, on the other hand resulted in the highest rainfall zone in the northern part, the moderate rainfall on the southeastern, and the lowest on the southwestern part. As it relates to temporal variation, the results from 1987-1996 for both methods are mostly the same but those from 1997-2006 and 2007-2016 are not quite the same especially results from the last decade. Homogeneous rainfall regionalization by clustering methods is preferable to merely geographical and mean annual rainfall values because they take into account several factors such as monthly rainfall distribution. 
Author
595040099-0 Mr. PONGPINID PINIDLUEK [Main Author]
Engineering Master's Degree

Peer Review Status มีผู้ประเมินอิสระ 
Level of Conference นานาชาติ 
Type of Proceeding Full paper 
Type of Presentation Oral 
Part of thesis true 
Presentation awarding false 
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