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Advances in Meteorology
Volume 2015, Article ID 579437, 16 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/579437
Research Article

Recent Trends in Temperature and Precipitation in the Langat River Basin, Malaysia

Mahdi Amirabadizadeh,1 Yuk Feng Huang,2 and Teang Shui Lee1

1Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43300 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
2Faculty of Engineering and Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, 53300 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Received 10 September 2014; Revised 7 November 2014; Accepted 20 November 2014

Academic Editor: Lin Wang

Copyright © 2015 Mahdi Amirabadizadeh et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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