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A stochastic daily weather generator for perennial crop simulations in tropical Malaysia.
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Weather generators are crucial for agricultural modeling in tropical regions, where historical weather data are often scarce or incomplete. This study introduces MsiaGen, a stochastic daily weather generator for Malaysia's tropical climate, emphasizing computational simplicity, site-specific parameterization, and p ractical applicability. The model was calibrated using data from 12 sites across Malaysia and validated at 11 independent sites, encompassing diverse climatic conditions from Peninsular to East Malaysia. MsiaGen uses a Skew Normal distribution for air temperatures to capture observed asymmetries, particularly in maximum temperatures, while utilizing Weibull and Gamma distributions for wind speed and rainfall, respectively. The generator incorporates first-order autoregressive processes for temporal dependencies and a two-state Markov chain for wet/dry day sequencing. Validation showed strong monthly-scale performance, with mean absolute errors below 1.2% for temperatures, 2.4% for wind speed, and 1.8% for rainfall, along with near-zero model bias and high overall model agreement scores (Kling-Gupta Efficiency metric >0.8). Daily scale validation using quantile-quantile plots revealed excellent agreement for temperature distributions, with points clustering tightly along the identity line within common ranges (21-28 °C for minimum and 25-39 °C for maximum temperatures). Empirical cumulative distribution function analysis indicated that 85 ± 10% of daily temperature errors were within ±2.0°C, 94 ± 6% of wind speed errors were within ±1.0 m s ⁻ ¹, and 83 ± 5% of rainfall errors were within ±20 mm. However, performance declined for extreme events, particularly rainfall exceeding 80-100 mm and wind speeds above 3-4 m s-1, likely due to distribution tail limitations and short observational records (3-5 years). Further validation using oil palm yield simulations at two independent plantation sites demonstrated that generated weather reproduced temporal dynamics across multiple planting densities. MsiaGen offers a practical and data-efficient tool for tropical agricultural research.
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