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Integrated and customized climate services are key to mitigating disaster risks and achieving sustainable development goals through climate adaptation. RIMES supports the Member States to generate high-resolution forecast products and builds capacities to interpret and translate forecast information into impact-based early warning action steps. In collaboration with the National Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF)…

The Climate Adaptation and Resilience for South Asia (CARE South Asia) project, supported by the World Bank, is aimed at building resilience to climate change by promoting evidence-based climate-smart decision-making and enhancing policies, standards, and capacities for climate-resilient development in the Southasia region. CARE-South Asia project is being jointly implemented by RIMES and ADPC. On the…

South Asia Hydro-met Forum (SAHF) is a regional initiative that provides capacity building and training activities to support National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) to generate and transform climate data into reliable information that is critical in saving lives and assets and strengthening the resilience of communities in South Asia. The World Bank’s “SAHF South Asia…

Ocean information is critical for effective management of maritime activities, such as shipping, marine recreation, fisheries, and disaster preparedness in the islands and coastal regions The Indian National Center for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) supports oceanic and seismic initiatives that are implemented across countries in the Indian Ocean, South Asia, and Southeast Asia through funding…

RIMES-ECMWF cooperation, since 2012, has been instrumental in enhancing the integration of longer-lead time forecast products into the member countries’ climate service delivery   European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) has been sharing medium, extended range, and seasonal NWP products in real-time since 2012. RIMES, in turn, reports on the use and application of ECMWF…

RIMES and WMO cooperation focuses on capacity development of national meteorological and hydrological services for disaster risk reduction, climate action and sustainable development The WMO Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) provides a global platform for guiding and supporting activities across the value chain for climate services. The framework enables member states to leverage international…

RIMES works with UNESCO/IOC to support regional ocean science and services catered towards risk reduction and mitigation during severe weather events as well as overall oceanic monitoring and data sharing. The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC)’s operational requirements for Regional Tsunami Service Providers (RTSPs) include the linking of earthquake and tsunami forecast information with…

Given the transboundary nature of hazards, institutionalized regional cooperation is needed for integration of early warning systems, enhancing weather and climate services for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. RIMES adopts a regional approach to draw upon outputs from global and regional WMO centers for hydro-meteorological hazards and UNESCO/IOC centers for tsunami, to enhance…

Seismic data from stations set up in member states share data with the regional and global networks. To enable seismic data sharing into the regional networks (RIMES/IRIS), a dataless SEED volume that contains the station’s metadata, and the national center’s SEEDLink server’s public IP address are shared to the regional networks. Restrictions for IP addresses…

Sea level station data have been integrated into national networks via cellular telemetry to transmit data via mobile wireless modem to the nearest telecommunications tower and shared globally through GTS to the GLOSS network. RIMES has also deployed buoy stations that transmit information on meteorological data such as water temperature, wave height, period, direction, etc.…