Regional climate downscaling for Southeast Asia and the Philippines: Progress and opportunities

Authors

  • Julie Mae B. Dado ⋅ PH Regional Climate Systems Laboratory, Manila Observatory

Abstract

Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, is considered most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change due to the exposure of its high population and vulnerable systems to multiple hazards, coupled with low coping and adaptive capacities of its developing countries. In the past decade since Southeast Asia Regional Climate Downscaling / Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment - Southeast Asia (SEACLID/CORDEX-SEA) was established, significant progress has been made in providing robust climate change information for the region. Projections from multiple models and scenarios are especially useful in investigating the range of potential climate impacts, including extreme events, that are increasingly likely to happen with global warming. Although results have shown that local climate is more reasonably captured by downscaling global climate model output, biases in the mean temperature and rainfall are still noted in the simulations. The mechanisms behind these model biases are further investigated, in addition to methodologies that are being applied to prepare climate datasets for local adaptation and impact studies.

About the Speaker

Julie Mae B. Dado, Regional Climate Systems Laboratory, Manila Observatory

Julie Mae Dado is a climate scientist and assistant laboratory head of the Regional Climate Systems Laboratory of the Manila Observatory. She received her PhD in Science from Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. Her research focuses on the interaction among land, ocean and atmosphere, providing insights on historical and projected changes in the climate of the Philippines and Southeast Asia. She is actively involved in the Southeast Asia Regional Climate Downscaling/Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment - Southeast Asia (SEACLID/CORDEX-SEA) project, among other research work that provides climate and climate change information for sectoral impacts and adaptation. Dr. Dado was recognized as a Department of Science and Technology − Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) ICONs awardee in 2013 for being one of their scholar graduates that exemplify excellence in the field of climate science.

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Article ID

SPP-2022-INV-3F-02

Section

Invited Presentations

Published

2022-09-28

How to Cite

[1]
JMB Dado, Regional climate downscaling for Southeast Asia and the Philippines: Progress and opportunities, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 40, SPP-2022-INV-3F-02 (2022). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP-2022-INV-3F-02.