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==DOST 12 sets up 3 Automated Weather Stations== | |||
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r12&id=56909 | |||
*Friday, September 30, 2011 | |||
:by PIA Press Release | |||
KORONADAL CITY, Sept 30 (PIA) -- The regional office of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST-12) has installed automated weather stations (AWS) in three strategic locations in the region as part of the government’s nationwide disaster modernization mitigation program. | |||
Dr. Zenaida P. Hadji Raof Laidan, DOST-12 regional director, said the AWS were installed at the General Santos City airport, at the People’s Palace compound in Cotabato City, and in Barangay Badyangon in the coastal town of Palimbang in Sultan Kudarat province. | |||
“The AWS is a modern weather tracking device that can do remote meteorological measurements and send data on a real-time basis,” she said. | |||
Director Laidan said the AWS, which costs P250,000 each, can also be used to issue a tsunami warning so that people in the coastal areas can evacuate before it could strike. | |||
She said that the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), of the DOST, is presently embarking on the establishment of AWS nationwide in line with its modernization program. | |||
The project is in coordination with the DOST’s Advance Science and Technology Institute (ASTI), which developed various instruments such as AWS to assist PAGASA in weather monitoring and forecasting. | |||
PAGASA, in addition to the Doppler Radar installation project, needs the AWS to automate its ground stations in order to perform faster, more accurate and efficient data system to help in early warning and monitoring of potential disasters. | |||
The automation of data acquisition and transmission will decrease operational cost and minimize the possibility of errors brought about by manual instruments. | |||
The AWS project hopes to establish and maintain a nationwide environmental monitoring network that will continuously provide warnings for the mitigation of environment-related disasters. | |||
Each AWS is equipped with sensors capable of measuring weather parameters, wind speed and direction, air temperature, air humidity, air pressure, rain volume, duration and intensity. | |||
It will also help in monitoring flood and typhoon that may affect the locality. | |||
There will be a total of 80 AWS stations that will be established in the different parts of the country. | |||
The nationwide setting up of AWS is under a special project dubbed “Development of Hybrid Weather Monitoring System and Production of Weather and Rain Automated Stations.” | |||
It also seeks to support the disaster preparedness programs of local government units, particularly their respective Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Councils. | |||
The AWS also aims to improve the climate change adaptation and disaster risk mitigation programs of the LGUs. | |||
To access DOST’s AWS nationwide, one can visit AWS Website: http://202.90.149.66/predict/stations.php. (DEDoguiles/PIA 12/BK Tagitican, DOST 12) | |||
==DENR 12 has new RTD for Land Management Service== | ==DENR 12 has new RTD for Land Management Service== | ||
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r12&id=56733 | *Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r12&id=56733 | ||
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Pascual likewise urged DENR personnel to follow the command of the two officials. | Pascual likewise urged DENR personnel to follow the command of the two officials. | ||
The reshuffle was implemented by virtue of DENR Special Order No. 2011 – 689 issued on September 19 by the DENR Undersecretary for Field Operations, Atty. Ernesto D. Adobo, Jr. (DEDoguiles/PIA 12/MCalungsod-Locsin/DENR 12). | The reshuffle was implemented by virtue of DENR Special Order No. 2011 – 689 issued on September 19 by the DENR Undersecretary for Field Operations, Atty. Ernesto D. Adobo, Jr. (DEDoguiles/PIA 12/MCalungsod-Locsin/DENR 12). | ||
==AFP sets turnover of internal security efforts to South Cotabato gov’t== | ==AFP sets turnover of internal security efforts to South Cotabato gov’t== | ||