Using the new Philippine radar network to reconstruct the Habagat of August 2012 monsoon event around Metropolitan Manila
- From 6 to 9 August 2012, intense rainfall hit the northern Philippines, causing massive floods in Metropolitan Manila and nearby regions. Local rain gauges recorded almost 1000mm within this period. However, the recently installed Philippine network of weather radars suggests that Metropolitan Manila might have escaped a potentially bigger flood just by a whisker, since the centre of mass of accumulated rainfall was located over Manila Bay. A shift of this centre by no more than 20 km could have resulted in a flood disaster far worse than what occurred during Typhoon Ketsana in September 2009.
| Author details: | Maik HeistermannORCiDGND, Irene CrisologoORCiDGND, Catherine Cristobal AbonGND, B. A. Racoma, S. Jacobi, N. T. Servando, C. P. C. David, Axel BronstertORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-653-2013 |
| ISSN: | 1561-8633 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Natural hazards and earth system sciences |
| Publisher: | Copernicus |
| Place of publishing: | Göttingen |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2013 |
| Publication year: | 2013 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
| Volume: | 13 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Number of pages: | 5 |
| First page: | 653 |
| Last Page: | 657 |
| Funding institution: | Project NOAH; German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) through the PROGRESS project; GeoSim graduate research school |
| Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Umweltwissenschaften und Geographie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Geographie und Geoökologie |
| Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Geoökologie |
