Variability And Rainfall Against Slope Failure For Penang Island

Rainfall is one of the factors that can cause slope instability problems in Malaysia especially Penang Island is one of the areas which have corrugated and hilly topography. Thus, this study had been done throughout the two locations in Penang Island and they are Air Itam and Batu Lanchang with the...

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Main Author: Kassim, Maimunah Abu
Format: Monograph
Language:English
Published: Universiti Sains Malaysia 2017
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description Rainfall is one of the factors that can cause slope instability problems in Malaysia especially Penang Island is one of the areas which have corrugated and hilly topography. Thus, this study had been done throughout the two locations in Penang Island and they are Air Itam and Batu Lanchang with the helps by one of the IDRISI Selva software. The objectives of this study are first to identify variability of climate change parameter, second to analyse using suitable model for landslide analysis and lastly to provide landslide susceptibility maps based on the rainfall distribution. This Yearly and monsoonal variations of long term rainfall (30 years) and (17 years) data were studied. From time series plot and for mean yearly variations, both Air Itam and Batu Lanchang provides positive trend. For mean monsoonal variations for Northeast monsoon and Southwest monsoon, both Air Itam and Batu Lanchang provide positive trends. The climate extreme indices analysis shows that climate change makes this region become wetter with high amount of rainfall in Northeast monsoon and Southwest monsoon. Overall, parameters used in landslide mapping of Air Itam and Batu Lanchang are elevation, land use, soil properties and rainfall intensity with the application of IDRISI Selva to identify risky areas that prone to landslide.
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spelling usm-522612022-04-11T04:23:07Z http://eprints.usm.my/52261/ Variability And Rainfall Against Slope Failure For Penang Island Kassim, Maimunah Abu T Technology TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Rainfall is one of the factors that can cause slope instability problems in Malaysia especially Penang Island is one of the areas which have corrugated and hilly topography. Thus, this study had been done throughout the two locations in Penang Island and they are Air Itam and Batu Lanchang with the helps by one of the IDRISI Selva software. The objectives of this study are first to identify variability of climate change parameter, second to analyse using suitable model for landslide analysis and lastly to provide landslide susceptibility maps based on the rainfall distribution. This Yearly and monsoonal variations of long term rainfall (30 years) and (17 years) data were studied. From time series plot and for mean yearly variations, both Air Itam and Batu Lanchang provides positive trend. For mean monsoonal variations for Northeast monsoon and Southwest monsoon, both Air Itam and Batu Lanchang provide positive trends. The climate extreme indices analysis shows that climate change makes this region become wetter with high amount of rainfall in Northeast monsoon and Southwest monsoon. Overall, parameters used in landslide mapping of Air Itam and Batu Lanchang are elevation, land use, soil properties and rainfall intensity with the application of IDRISI Selva to identify risky areas that prone to landslide. Universiti Sains Malaysia 2017-06-01 Monograph NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/52261/1/Variability%20And%20Rainfall%20Against%20Slope%20Failure%20For%20Penang%20Island_Maimunah%20%20Abu%20Kassim_A9_2017.pdf Kassim, Maimunah Abu (2017) Variability And Rainfall Against Slope Failure For Penang Island. Project Report. Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pusat Pengajian Kejuruteraan Awam. (Submitted)
spellingShingle T Technology
TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Kassim, Maimunah Abu
Variability And Rainfall Against Slope Failure For Penang Island
title Variability And Rainfall Against Slope Failure For Penang Island
title_full Variability And Rainfall Against Slope Failure For Penang Island
title_fullStr Variability And Rainfall Against Slope Failure For Penang Island
title_full_unstemmed Variability And Rainfall Against Slope Failure For Penang Island
title_short Variability And Rainfall Against Slope Failure For Penang Island
title_sort variability and rainfall against slope failure for penang island
topic T Technology
TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
url http://eprints.usm.my/52261/
http://eprints.usm.my/52261/1/Variability%20And%20Rainfall%20Against%20Slope%20Failure%20For%20Penang%20Island_Maimunah%20%20Abu%20Kassim_A9_2017.pdf