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2002
Envisioning Future Philippine Climate Conditions: An Analysis of General Circulation Models based on the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios
Visualization of the extent of climate change in the Philippines is important in vulnerability and adaptation studies. Data will have to be downscaled from the…
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Changes in Rainfall Patterns Due to the Growth of an Urban Area
The changes in rainfall patterns, which evolve during the growth in size of a tropical urban area, are studied by means of model simulations. The…
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2001
An Analysis on the Precipitable Water Vapor Observed over the PIMO GPS Station
Remote sensing of the atmosphere using Global Positioning Systems has been made possible with the derivation of the precipitable water vapor (PWV) from the tropospheric…
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Rainfall Simulation Using the Fifth-Generation PSU/NCAR Mesoscale Model (MM5)
Having successfully implemented the PSU/NCAR Mesoscale Model 5 (MM5) in the Agila Beowulf cluster of Ateneo, the Atmospheric Modeling Group (AMG) of the Manila Observatory…
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Pollution Patterns from Discharges of a Marine Outfall
The pollution patterns due to discharges from a marine outfall in the coastal waters of Southern Lingayen Gulf are studied. The variations of these patterns…
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The Convective Boundary Layer Height and its Effect on Pollutant Concentration
Air pollutants are trapped within a very thin layer of the atmosphere called the boundary layer (BL). A hydrostatic, biaxial, vertically-pointing Mie Scattering 532 nm…
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An Air Pollution Model for Metro Manila
The present report describes an initial research to develop a theoretical model, which would explain the observations that will be described. The ultimate goal of…
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Representation of a 1961-90 Climatological Rainfall Baseline
Major advances have been made on the study of climate change. For this reason, a higher resolution of climate baseline is required. It is important…
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Climatological Changes in Rainfall due to Urbanization
A two-dimensional, theoretical model based on the fluid dynamical equations is developed to determine the effects of urbanization on rainfall. The model is applied to…
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2000
Optical Depth Measurements of Clouds Using a Mie Scattering LIDAR System
The optical properties of clouds are important factors in studying global radiative balance. In particular, the optical depth distribution of clouds, which may be derived…
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