The project aims to support the strengthening of Nepal‚s national capacity for flood risk reduction and adaptation to climate change by improving data processing capabilities and enable the generation of user-friendly climate and flood risk information for decision-making. Key activities include the customization of meso-scale forecasting system (WRF) for Nepal domain; the validation and improvement […]

The project developed climate, flood, and flashflood forecasting and application technologies, and transferred these to and built capacities of Government of Bangladesh institutions and professionals for operationalization. Key activities include the development and improvement of weather, climate, and flood forecast schemes of 1-6 days, 20-25 days, and 1-6 months lead times; the transfer of the […]

The project aims to design and establish a basic 24/7 National Weather and Flood Forecasting and Warning Center in Bhutan, for providing reliable weather and flood forecasts for early warning of hydro-meteorological hazards. Key activities include the assessment of existing systems for weather and flood forecasting, and identification of capacity gaps; system design for weather […]

The project aims to establish RIMES regional center for tsunami warning, with capabilities to receive and process seismic, sea level, and deep ocean data; evaluate data to assess tsunamigenic potential, and prepare and disseminate earthquake alerts and tsunami watch to RIMES Member States. Key activities include the design of tsunami watch provision system, which includes […]

The project aims to enhance RIMES tsunami early warning capability by developing numerical tsunami modeling capacity within RIMES regional early warning center and preparing tsunami inundation maps. Key activities include the review of current and emerging seismological techniques for rapid estimation of earthquake parameters; the evaluation of available tsunami generation, propagation, and inundation models; training […]

The project developed digital elevation model for Comoros, for use in tsunami modeling training course. Key activities include the collection of near-shore bathymetric and topographic charts, survey bechmarks, and administrative boundaries, and confirmation with project partners on most vulnerable areas; GPS survey for data validation; GIS database development; validation of global datasets with digitized data, […]

The project aims to design and establish a network of 3 automatic weather stations and 2 automatic water level stations for providing real-time data to Bhutan‚National Weather and Flood Forecasting and Warning Center. Key activities include the assessment of existing system for weather and hydrological observation and monitoring; network design, including identification of hardware and […]

The project aims to establish 6 near real-time sea level stations in Philippines (3), Thailand (1), and Vietnam (2) for monitoring sea level changes, for tsunami early warning. Key activities include site survey to determine location appropriate for tsunami warning; the design and construction of sea level station platform; equipment acquisition; on-site installation, telemetry, and […]

The project aims to establish 4 real-time sea-level stations in Myanmar (1), the Philippines (1), and Vietnam (2) for monitoring earthquakes, for tsunami early warnings. Key activities include site survey to determine location appropriate for tsunami warning; the design and construction of seismic vaults; equipment acquisition; and on-site installation, telemetry, and reliability testing

RIMES, as a resource center for Member States, continuously engage in research and development activities to enable it to deliver cutting-edge technology and capacity building on new techniques and tools for analysis and application. The research agenda is driven by the search for low-cost, but efficient technologies; rapid provision of increasingly Ongoing Projects: Seismic Hazard […]

An effective early warning system links technical agencies that generate warning information with people at risk. This is called end-to-end early warning system. In order to strength this system, RIMES builds forecasters’ capacities in observation and monitoring; data process and analysis; prediction and forecasting; risk assessment; warning formulation and dissemination until the last mile; preparation […]

With increasing awareness of the potential impacts of climate change, it is realized that socio-economic sectors such as water, agriculture or fisheries, that are highly sensitive to weather and climate extremes like droughts, floods, cyclones and storms, heat waves or cold waves, have to enhance the use of climate information; however, decision-makers in these sectors […]