Seasonal Change of General Meteorological Factors in the North Borneo

  • KURAJI Koichiro
    University Forest in Aichi, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
  • ICHIE Tomoaki
    Center for Tropical Forest Science - Arnold Arboretum, Asia Program, National Institute of Education, Singapore

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  • 北ボルネオにおける一般気象の季節変動
  • キタボルネオ ニ オケル イッパン キショウ ノ キセツ ヘンドウ

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Abstract

Seasonal change of general meteorological factors in the North Borneo (the state of Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia) were examined using data measured by the Malaysian Meteorological Service (MMS) in the 10 stations for the past 51 years. Seasonal change of temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind speed, wind direction, solar radiation and evaporation were obvious in this region, especially precipitation. Previous studies tended to have a perception that this region has no clear seasonal change of general meteorological factors because the amplitude of the seasonal fluctuation in this region is smaller than the amplitude of seasonal fluctuation in the temperate region or the amplitude of diurnal fluctuation in the tropics. Long-term precipitation data showed that there are no three consecutive months that have less than 100mm monthly rainfall, and this is the reason why this region was considered to be a region with no seasonal precipitation change despite of the obvious seasonal change shown in this paper.

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