Seasonal march patterns of the summer rainy season in the Philippines and their long-term variability since the late twentieth century

Abstract This study investigates the seasonal march patterns of rainfall in the Philippines from 1951 to 2012 and their long-term variability. In order to clarify the dominant patterns in the seasonal march of rainfall, an empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis was applied to pentad rainfall d...

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Main Authors: Ikumi Akasaka, Hisayuki Kubota, Jun Matsumoto, Esperanza O. Cayanan, Rosalina G. de Guzman, Flaviana D. Hilario
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-03-01
Series:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40645-018-0178-5