Transcript Bangladesh

Outline of the Project Proposal
By
MR. MD. SHAH ALAM
DIRECTOR
BANGLADESH METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT
1st Meeting of the INDARE-SC
September 29 to October 01, 2014
Geneva, Switzerland.
Geographical Location:
Bangladesh extends from 20°34’N to 26°38’N
latitude and from 88°01’E to 92°41’E
longitude. Except the hilly southeast, most of
the country is a low-lying plain land. It is
surrounded by the Assam Hills in the east, the
Meghalaya Plateau in the north, the lofty
Himalayas lying farther to the north. To its
south lies the Bay of Bengal and to the west lie
the plain land of West Bengal and the vast tract
of the Gangetic Plain.
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The total land area: 147, 570 sq km.
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Total population: 163 million -2013
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Population density: 1174.33 per sq. Km.
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Ad. Division: Seven Divisions.
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Climate: Monsoon dominating tropical.
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Background
Geographical, geological and topographical aspects
together make Bangladesh one of the most vulnerable
to natural disasters especially tropical cyclones, flood,
local severe storms (nor’westers and tornadoes).
In the face of global warming causing snow-melting and
consequent sea-level rise arising out of the adverse
effects of climate change, Bangladesh, as a low-lying
country have to have better adaptation measures. For
sustainable development of Bangladesh, BMD needs to
generate Science based climate products and
information to different sectors for their better planning.
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Existing Observational Facilities of BMD
Location of Observatories
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Synoptic observatories : 35
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Pilot Observatories : 10
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Rawinsonde Observatories : 3
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Agromet observatories : 12
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Automatic Weather Station:7
Automatic Rain Gauge: 12
• Synoptic
Observatory
• Pilot Balloon
11 Stations are part of the WMO Regional
Basic Synoptic Network (RBSN).
7 stations of the WMO Regional Basic
Climatological Network (RBCN). BMD.
Observatory
New 49 AWS are in the implementation
stage
• Rawinsonde
• Agromet
Observatory
Observatory
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Paper Archive in BMD premises that have to be
inventoried
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Observers in Dhaka station
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Status of Climatic Data of Bangladesh
• The Climate Division of BMD archives climatological data. The
division receives a hand written paper form, called the CL-17 form
that contains most of the 3-hourly observational data on a
monthly basis from each station. The CL-17 is keyed-in by the
Climate Division in text format and processing using FORTRAN
language.
• Data could be found in Bangladesh but also in UK, India and
Pakistan considering historical aspect. Some data may have been
lost during the history of BMD especially during the liberation war
and different relocations of BMD premises, also during the 1988
devastating flood.
• The implementation of the climate database management system
(CliSys) started in BMD from October 2012 by experts from Meteo
France International (MFI). According to WMO format Meta Data
is being updated.
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Present Status of GTS and WIS
 TDCF Migration from TAC has been completed.
 Present GTS bandwidth is 64kbps (has to be increased by BMD).
 Two BMD personnel were attended at Regional Training Seminar
about WIS and BMD has assigned a focal point for WIS.
 GISC New Delhi is nominated as principal GISC for BMD.
 Presently BMD uses GISC Tokyo through Internet.
 Need training and technical support to establish NC under WIS in
BMD.
 Discovery Metadata has been created with the help of WIS
metadata tools, JMA
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Project Purpose and Objectives
• Government policy to support better ‘adaptation’ measures.
• Provide tailored climate products, science-based climate
information to the policy makers for sustainable development.
• Bangladesh should have better adaptation measures as it is
most vulnerable to climate change and natural disasters
especially tropical cyclones, floods, local severe storms for
example nor’westers and tornadoes.
• Bangladesh Meteorological Department is facing challenges to
establish a strong and modern data foundation for
implementing GFCS.
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Project Purpose and Objectives
• Provide appropriate historical and timely information on
weather and climate extremes to support the implementation
of early warning systems by increasing countries resilience to
these extreme weather events .
• Provide information on extremes such as heat waves, cold
waves and wet spells and their prediction, thus aiding
preventative measures and saving lives.
• To prepare Climate information such as standardized
precipitation indices, monthly maximum consecutive rainfall for
various time periods and consecutive dry days which is very
essential for water resource management, flood management
and agriculture sector.
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Scope of the Project
 Capacity building for data rescue.
 To consolidate data acquisition and data controls.
 To develop a new data import process, so that CliSys
will ingest directly the files produced by the keyentry operations to the 17 parameters in place of
currently available 12 parameters for all stations.
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Preparation of Standard digital Climatological Records for all stations:
 Surface Data:
•Daily Climatological Reports (DCR)
•Monthly Climatological Summaries (MCS)
•Annual Climatological Publications (ACP)
•Daily weather observation Reports (DWR)
 Strip Charts (SC) Diagrams:
•Rainfall Strip Charts (RSC)
•Temperature Strip Charts (TSC)
•Humidity Strip Charts (HSC)
•Pressure Strip Charts (PSC)
•Sunshine Diagram (SD)
 Upper Air data:
•Daily Rawin Sonde Report (DRSR)
•Daily Wind Profile Report (DWPR)
•Monthly Radio-Sonde Summary (MRSS)
•Monthly Wind Profile Summary (MWPS)
•Annual Upper Air Publication (AUAP)
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Preparation of Standard Digital Climatological Records for all stations:
 Marine Climatological Archives:
• Marine Climatological Summaries (MCS)
 Other type of archives:
• Daily weather maps (surface and altitude)
• Weather observations reports (METAR, SYNOP, CLIMAT,…….)
 Others to be specified:
• Satellite data, Radar data
 Agro-Meteorological Data:
• The database (CDMS) have to be extended with agro-meteorological data.
 Products Implementation:
• CLIMAT message in TAC and TDCF
• World Weather Records
• CLIMAT Bulletin in quasi real-time
• Map of interpolated data with Normals
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Duration and Cost of the Project:
Duration and cost of project is to be determined after assessment by
expert / consultant through WMO assistance.
Conclusion
The implementation of a Data Rescue and homogenization project is
essential in BMD. This could be initiated by an expert mission from
the WMO or a National Meteorological Service specialized in this
field. As such, it would be very beneficial for BMD if WMO could
provide necessary assistance in the form of financial and technical
assistance to BMD so that the Data Rescue and Homogenization
Project can be taken up and successfully implemented in the near
future.
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THANK YOU
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