A statistical analysis of the monthly mean maximum air temperature in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Hewapathirana, T.K.

dc.contributor.author	Hewapathirana, T.K.	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2014-11-19T04:50:51Z
dc.date.available	2014-11-19T04:50:51Z
dc.date.issued	2003
dc.identifier.citation	Hewapathirana, T.K. 2003. A statistical analysis of the monthly mean maximum air temperature in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Journal of Science of the University of Kelaniya, 01: 35-47.
dc.identifier.issn	ISSN 1391-9210	en_US
dc.identifier.uri
dc.identifier.uri	http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/4228
dc.description.abstract	The present study was carried out to fit a mathematical model to describe the variation pattern of monthly mean maximum air temperature in Colombo in order to predict the future values. Monthly mean maximum temperature values for a period of over 35 years were used for the analysis : Time series statistical methods were considered to study the trend and seasonal , cyclic and irregular components. The long term pattern in tlie variation of,monthly mean maximum temperature in Colombo appears to be dominated by a pronounced seasonal effect. The highest seasonal effect was found to be in March . It was found that the temprature of a particular month depends on the lagged temperature values of the two preceding months.	en_US
dc.publisher	Journal of Science of the University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka	en_US
dc.subject	Time series analysis; seasonal variation; cyclic variation; residuals; decomposition method	en_US
dc.title	A statistical analysis of the monthly mean maximum air temperature in Colombo, Sri Lanka
dc.type	article	en_US
dc.identifier.department	Statistics	en_US