MISA5 - 5th Malaysian International Seminar on Antarctic

Attending, a committee and a presenter of this event.
I really wish this end fast!

Writing

Currently busy writing my journal/dissertation project and planning another topic writing. And probably writing or translating some fitness article. I'm not sure yet about the later part.
Anyway, still brainstorming, cracking head for the good writing mood.

me: motivation needed!

Emprical orthogonal Function

I've been searching and reading few literature about EOF and it's application over meteorology data. It's rather confusing and did not answer my vital question ; Why do we need to perform EOF over the data.
Finally come across this page : http://meteora.ucsd.edu/~jnorris/sio209.sp01/EOF_background.pdf

..clears my inquiries a little, although then another question came, Should or not I use this method to my data?

that's all about research. A question answered just to get us to another question.

Surface Air Temperature over KL

Since I've missed a few Hurricane and Typhoon posts lately, today, I just want to post my small project, just for fun.
After my friend and probably others too, complaining the extraordinary heat at KL last Feb and March (and probably April too?), I've extracted this NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data and made the anomaly analysis just to see whether there's temperature rise over KL early this year.

The graph showing us the difference between the average monthly and average of 30 years (1971-2000,climatology standard)...
.....which means, for the very first data in the first graph, is the air temp difference between average January 1971 and climatology average of January.
Note that, the temperature value analyzed is at 6UTC, or 2pm local time.

1.Average monthly anomalies (click for clear img)Air temperature anomalies over KL (monthly) from 1971-2010.
Climatology reference year is 1971-2000.

2.Average monthly anomalies (2008-2010)..(click for clear img)Air temperature anomalies over KL, for 2008-2010. Marked in red is the area referring to Feb,Mar,Apr,May 0f 2010, where the temperature seemed over average. (sorry for double legend there, :)...)

That's all I could write right now, `cause I need to get back to my work.

me: (!)this analysis is only for general information and not for decision making related to property protection,etc.

Tropical Storm Mindulle

Sources:

http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/Tropical/Data/MINDULLE-10.html

http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil

http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/36026/mindulle-unleashing-flooding-r.asp

I've been meaning to post this before yesterday, but I was busy with something else..

Anyway, since the storm is over land, already, probably it is in decaying state now. It was started to speed up on 22nd Aug at northern part of South China Sea, moving forward to northern Vietnam. The depression developed into storm on 23rd Aug..

Storm developed offshore Northern Vietnam. Winds speed: 35knots

The storm landed over Vietnam on 24thAug:

closer look on 24th Aug. winds speed: 60 knots

decaying process, later on 24th..winds speed: 40 knots

Past and forecast track:

Summary from typhoon watch website:

Name Date Time(UTC) Lat Lon Wind(knots) Type

MINDULLE 22/08/2010 6:00 16.0N 114.2E 30 DEP

MINDULLE 22/08/2010 12:00 15.9N 113.4E 30 DEP

MINDULLE 22/08/2010 18:00 15.9N 112.1E 30 DEP

MINDULLE 23/08/2010 0:00 16.2N 111.0E 35 STO

MINDULLE 23/08/2010 6:00 16.1N 109.8E 40 STO

MINDULLE 23/08/2010 12:00 16.5N 108.9E 50 STO

MINDULLE 23/08/2010 18:00 17.2N 108.6E 55 STO

MINDULLE 24/08/2010 0:00 18.0N 107.2E 60 STO

MINDULLE 24/08/2010 6:00 18.6N 106.2E 55 STO

MINDULLE 24/08/2010 12:00 19.0N 105.5E 40 STO

Flood threaten northern Vietnam as the rainfall recorded as 13in within 24hr on 24th Aug, and between 12-18in by 25th.

currently

currently I`m struggle finishing test on Walker Cell and Hadley cell, and reading basic stuff regarding Arctic Weather system and Mid-Latitude Weather system.

Pray for me to write something useful here someday soon..

me: can`t write what currently doing since i haven`t finished it yet..heeee~

Classes and Research

yes..a little bit kerfuffle...with classes at MMD and then running my research and such.
and not to forget some other DISTRACTIONS...
well, thanks God, Prof finished his sabbatical and here already, and i've decided to move on with the current research as my Thesis topic and not the other topic (modelling) which means that I'm 25% done. wow..a few more tests and observation then i'm ready to start writing..and also struggling to write journal paper to be submitted to ISI journal (as one of the MPhil requirement....
Plus, the Geophysics class was twice cancelled. grrrr..
not to forget, classes at MMD really helpful with my research..great..

me: lovin' it!