Abstract The impacts of climate change are beginning to be felt around the world. Case studies that identify the immediate causes of disasters as well as their root drivers provide the empirical basis for strategies to increase resilience to climate impacts. Here we...
Abstract The largest 7 Southeast Asian Studies (7SEAS) operations period within the Maritime Continent (MC) occurred in the August–September 2012 biomass burning season. Data included were observations aboard the M/Y Vasco, dispatched to the Palawan Archipelago and Sulu Sea of the Philippines for...
Abstract A generic systems dynamics (SD) model template for resilience is adapted to analyse flooding impacts on household assets and local government assets of Pasig City, Metro Manila. SD simulations are used to quantify the loss of system performance due to adverse impacts,...
Abstract We investigated the performance of RegCM4 in simulating rainfall over Southeast Asia with different combinations of deep-convection and air-sea flux parameterization schemes. Four different gridded rainfall datasets were used for the model assessment. In general, the simulations produced dry biases over the...
Abstract In September 2009, tropical cyclone Ketsana brought record rainfall over Metropolitan Manila, Philippines, resulting in widespread flooding and incapacitated the city for days. The extensive damage caused by heavy rainfall events such as this highlights the need to have an effective weather...
Abstract Ground-based cloud detection at nighttime is achieved by using cameras, lidars, and ceilometers. Despite these numerous instruments gathering cloud data, there is still an acknowledged scarcity of information on quantified local cloud cover, especially at nighttime. In this study, a digital camera...
Abstract Regional climate models have been useful in climate studies and in downscaling climate projections from global climate models, especially for areas characterized by complex topography and coastline features, such as the Philippines. However, several factors may affect model skill, such as uncertainties...
Abstract We studied the orbit of an electron revolving around an infinitely massive nucleus of a large classical Hydrogen atom subject to an AC electric field oscillating perpendicular to the electron’s circular orbit. Using perturbation theory in geometric algebra, we show that the...
Abstract We used geometric algebra to compute the paths of skew rays in a cylindrical, step-index multimode optical fiber. To do this, we used the vector addition form for the law of propagation, the exponential of an imaginary vector form for the law...
Abstract The performance of the RegCM4 in simulating rainfall variations over the Southeast Asia regions was examined. Different combinations of six deep convective parameterization schemes, namely i) Grell scheme with Arakawa-Schubert closure assumption, ii) Grell scheme with Fritch-Chappel closure assumption, iii) Emanuel MIT...
Abstract The Southeast Asia (SEA) region is one of the more vulnerable regions to the impacts of climate change because of the large population exposed to climate-related hazards, mostly living in countries with low adaptive capabilities. In order to adequately prepare and adapt...
Abstract. In a joint NRL/Manila Observatory mission, as part of the Seven SouthEast Asian Studies program (7-SEAS), a 2-week, late September 2011 research cruise in the northern Palawan archipelago was undertaken to observe the nature of southwest monsoonal aerosol particles in the South...
Abstract To complement the existing method of wind energy assessment, this study presents wind energy projection by downscaling a regional climate model, RegCM3, which is also used in predicting rainfall and temperature changes, and using a conversion method using the Weibull distribution. A...
Chapter 6 ABSTRACT Metro Manila is the most densely populated and most urbanized region in the country. It is the financial, industrial, and commercial hub of the Philippines. Air quality management in the region is mandated to the Environmental Management Bureau of the...
Chapter 13 ABSTRACT Long-term and consistent spatial-temporal quantification of fine particulate matter is needed in Metro Manila as past studies focused only on total suspended particulate matter. Quality assured and controlled fine particulate monitoring was done from 2000-2008 by Manila Observatory at 5...
Abstract In mid-2012, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) released version 4.3 of the Regional Climate Model (RegCM4.3). This version includes a new surface scheme, the Common Land Model (CLM); a new planetary boundary layer (PBL) scheme, the University of...