The authors wish to acknowledge the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC) for the data set and the developer of the NCAR Command Language (NCL) for analysis and graphic visualization tool. Finally, the authors sincerely thank the Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment (JGSEE) and the Centre of Excellence on Energy Technology and Environment (CEE), Science and Technology Postgraduate Education, Research Development Office (PERDO) and Thailand Research Fund (TRF) under the grant: RDG5630015 for study support
The authors wish to acknowledge the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, the
Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Change, and the NOAA's National Geophysical Data
Center for the APHRODITE, HadISST, and ETOPO5 data sets, respectively. We also would
like to thank Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lin Wang and his colleagues from the Institute of Atmospheric
Physics, China. This study was financially supported by the Thailand Research Fund (TRF)
under the grant: RDG5530005.
The authors sincerely thank the Pollution Control Department for tower data, the Thai Meteorological Department for upper air data, and the Land Development Department for land cover data over Thailand. The authors also thank the MM5 development and support teams, and the Japan Meteorological Agency and the National Centers for Environmental Prediction for providing reanalysis data. The MODIS satellite data are distributed by the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center, US Geological Survey, and global land cover data used is generously provided by EC-JRC. The authors received useful comments from Dr. RHB Exell and Dr. Boonrod Sajjakulnukit (JGSEE) and general assistance from members of the JGSEE Computational Laboratory, especially Phan Thanh Tung. We also thank Dr. Chumnong Sorapipatana (JGSEE) for his encouragement for the authors to carry out wind energy research at JGSEE. This work was financially supported mainly by JGSEE and the Thailand Research Fund (Grant No. RDG5050016) and partially by the Postgraduate Education and Research Development Office (Grant No. JGSEE/PROJECT/002-2011).
We thank the Thailand Meteorological Agency for supplying the rain gauge data. The TRMM data are processed by the TRMM Science Data and Information System (TSDIS) and distributed by the NASA/GSFC Distributed Active Archive Center (GDAAC). LSC acknowledges support from NASA TRMM and REASoN programs. RC is supported by a GRA from GMU/CEOSR.
The authors thank the Thailand Meteorological Service for providing the gauge data and APHRODITE's for rainfall data.
We thank the Thailand Meteorological Service for providing the gauge data and the GSFC DAAC for providing the TRMM data. LSC is partially supported by the NASA TRMM program.