Anthony B. Nd.

Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research | AWI · Biologische Anstalt Helgoland

Marine zooplankton are central components of holistic ecosystem assessments due to their intermediary role in the food chain, linking the base of the food chain with higher trophic levels. As a result, these organisms incorporate the inherent properties and changes occurring atall levels of the marine ecosystem, temporally integrating signatures of...

The Indonesian Seas are strongly influenced by the circulation system between the Pacific and the Indian Ocean, which play an important role in global circulation. In this study, an attempt is made to describe temperature, salinity, and water column stability using data obtained from the World Ocean Database (WOD), updated in 2018 at 0° latitude. T...

This study combines multivariate time series analysis and graph theory to detect synchronization, periodicities, correlations and cross-correlations between Solar Irradiance (TSI) and Earth's temp / air-sea heat-flux.  The primary objective is to show that climate research & models have generally not effectively represented the role of solar irrad...

WHO-reported data of cholera outbreaks in Cameroon were analyzed together with time-series datasets of NOAA’s El Nino Southern Oscillation - ENSO (Nino Index 3.4) and Pacific Decadal Oscillation index (PDO) in the time and spectral domains. Pearson’s correlation coefficient and spectral analysis (MESA) techniques were employed. The objective was to...

Cyclicity of cholera outbreaks in Cameroon and long-range prediction

In the first of a three-part study, a novel data-driven approach to estimate and quantify the indirect time-varying effects of solar irradiance on sea surface temperature and the climate system, has been proposed. The spatial resolution of this study is the region encompassing the South China Marginal Seas. The study seeks to revisit the question o...

Based on a simple graphical model which integrates the 41-year maximum time-lag into the relationship between TSI and SST, it is now finally possible to not only attribute changes in specific Solar Irradiance Cycles (SC) to past temperature and climate records, but also to make plausible predictions of regional and even global climatic changes deca...

WHO-reported data of cholera outbreaks in Cameroon has been analyzed together with NOAA's El Nino Southern Oscillation-ENSO (Nino Index 3.4) and the PDO index time-series data-sets, in the time and spectral domains using Pearson's correlation and spectral analysis techniques. The objective is to uncover the periodic oscillatory patterns of cholera...

This study seeks to uncover and document the complex synergistic drivers of broad-scale changes in four major phytoplankton functional groups in the SCS, namely: Diatom (Dia), Coccolithophore (Chl-a), Chlorophyte (Chlor), Cyanobacteria (Cya), as well as gross primary production - pp (using Chlorophyll-a as a proxy). The Physical Predictors includin...

WHO-reported data of cholera outbreaks in Cameroon were analyzed together with time- series datasets of NOAA's El Nino Southern Oscillation-ENSO (Nino Index 3.4) and Pacific Decadal Oscillation index (PDO) in the time and spectral domains. Pearson's correlation coefficient and spectral analysis (MESA) techniques were employed. The objective was to...

Over the past decades, upwelling research has intensified in the South China Sea resulting in interesting findings about the phenomenon and its drivers especially at seasonal, intra-seasonal and annual timescales. However, whether upwelling variability follows well defined and coherent cycles on a multi-temporal basis, remains a least examined area...

This systematic study of disaster risk and dis- aster managem ent efforts in Brunei Darussalam uncovers the reasons why floods and landslides in particular continue to inflict significant social, economic, and psychological toll. Vulnerability to the impacts of hydro-meteorological hazards continue to rise despite international awareness and improved...

The ocean-climate system is intricately linked, and temperature is a central variable there-in. In recent years studies of temperature changes in the South China Sea (SCS) and regional climate variability in general have been largely biased towards season monsoonal and annual patterns, as well as the long term linear trend. However, hardly any deta...

Since it was first observed in the 1950s a number of coastal upwelling systems have been identified and rigorously studied in the continental shelf of the South China Sea (SCS). Northern SCS in particular has been the predominant focal region while Southern Vietnam and Luzon Strait Upwelling Zones have been the locations that have received disprop...

Monthly and hourly upwelling indices have been derived for four locations on the northern/north-eastern coastline of the South China Sea (SCS) (1967-2013) using the standard NOAA-PFEL method. The study locations include: off S.W Taiwan, Off Hanoi, off Fujian, Off Guangdong. Moreover, annual averages and annual anomalies have been calculated for the...

This study examines the underlying forcing and drivers of floods and landslides in Brunei Darussalam using statistical and geospatial analysis for the purpose of uncovering efficient/effective management strategies and enhance predictive capabilities. It is based on the observation that although seasonal monsoons are generally predictable, intense...

Integrated coastal management (ICM) has been accepted as a strategic management approach in achieving sustainable development in coastal areas. As such, many coastal nations, both from the developed and less developed countries have surmounted many challenges of the coastal milieu with a successful implementation of ICM and now enjoy a sound enviro...

The occurrence of cholera on the Atlantic coast of Cameroon, especially in Douala is not just a public health crisis but a humanitarian disaster as well. From 2010 to 2012, 23,000 people contracted cholera of which 843 died. Based on a field inventory (2010, 2011 and 2012 epidemiological periods), this study posits that, cholera endemic heavily imp...

Tujuan kajian ini adalah untuk meneroka pelbagai perspektif pembelajaran dari strategi pembangunan kelompok pengetahuan di Malaysia dan di Brunei Darussalam. Ianya berdasarkan penyelidikan empirikal yang dijalankan di Malaysia pada tahun 2009 sehingga 2010 dan di Brunei Darussalam pada tahun 2013. Pemerhatian secara khusus telah dibuat terhadap seb...

Tujuan kajian ini adalah untuk meneroka pelbagai perspektif pembelajaran dari strategi pembangunan kelompok pengetahuan di Malaysia dan di Brunei Darussalam. Ianya berdasarkan penyelidikan empirikal yang dijalankan di Malaysia pada tahun 2009 sehingga 2010 dan di Brunei Darussalam pada tahun 2013. Pemerhatian secara khusus telah dibuat terhadap seb...

This atlas presents the geo-visual outcome of the project titled "Knowledge hubs in Brunei Darussalam". The availability and application of knowledge has been identified as the most important driving force of innovation and the social and economic development of a knowledge-based economy. As an additional factor the spatial distribution of high-lev...

This atlas presents the geo-visual outcome of the project titled "Knowledge hubs in Brunei Darussalam". The availability and application of knowledge has been identified as the most important driving force of innovation and the social and economic development of a knowledge-based economy. As an additional factor the spatial distribution of high-le...

Abstract The paper revisits the concept of knowledge governance by drawing on the experience of building knowledge clusters in two countries; Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam. It explores the strategies by which a country may take up the governance of knowledge, in the context of avoiding the knowledge trap drawing on experiences of Southeast Asian...