DOI: https://doi.org/10.18517/ijods.3.1.25-32.2022

Time-series analysis and statistical forecasting of daily rainfall in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

Sandy Herho (1) , Gisma Firdaus (2)
(1) Department of Geology, College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, United States
(2) Indonesian Sugar Research Institute (P3GI), Pasuruan, East Java, 67126, Indonesia
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rainfall anomaly, facebook prophet, , time-series analysis, wavelet transform

Abstract

This pilot study presents a novel statistical time-series approach for analyzing daily rainfall data in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. By using the piecewise cubic hermite interpolation algorithm, we succeeded in filling in the null values in the daily rainfall time series. We then analyzed the monthly average and its pattern using the continuous wavelet transform (CWT) algorithm, which shows the strong annual pattern of rainfall in this region. In addition, we use the rainfall anomaly index (RAI) function to standardize daily rainfall as an indicator of dry/wet conditions in this region. Then we also use the daily RAI time-series objects from 1978 to 2020 for modeling and predicting daily RAI over the next year. The result is the root mean squared error (RMSE) of 0.8424041040593219. This Prophet model is also able to capture the linear trend of increasing drought throughout the study time period and the annual pattern of wet/dry conditions which is in accordance with previous study by Aldrian and Susanto (2003).

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S. Herho and G. Firdaus, “Time-series analysis and statistical forecasting of daily rainfall in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia”, Int. J. Data. Science., vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 25-32, Jun. 2022.
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