Archives: Service Related

Weather information that is accurate and timely plays a pivotal role in informing climate-sensitive decisions in sectors like agriculture, public health, transportation, finance and water resources management among others. RIMES supports sectoral application of climate information by devising integrated platforms that connect weather data: both historical and observed, with forecast and advisory generation tools based…

RIMES has co-developed and operationalized several Decision Support Systems (DSS) for transforming hazard information into impact-based forecasting to aid decision-making across multiple sectors – disaster management, agriculture, transportation, energy, finance, health, and water resources being the major ones. Decision-makers in these sectors, especially in the developing regions, are limited by technical infrastructure and human resources…

South Asian Seasonal Climate Outlook Forum South Asian nations, supported by the WMO, came together to establish the South Asian Seasonal Climate Outlook Forum (SASCOF) in 2010. Since then, the SASCOF sessions are being organised every year before the summer monsoon season. SASCOF gathers NMHSs of the South Asian region to prepare consensus seasonal climate…

Institutional capacity is specific to each country and must be undertaken incrementally within a national context. Producing information that is timely, credible, and actionable necessitates inputs from many stakeholders, and requires coordination between multiple institutions at different levels. Effective institutional frameworks facilitate the delivery of climate services through the provision of legal, technical, and financial…

The partnership with World Bank focuses on two programs- Climate Adaptation and Resilience for South Asia (CARE South Asia) and South Asia Hydromet Forum (SAHF). CARE South Asia and SAHF are two complementary initiatives that encompass key components of an effective end-to-end early warning information value chain that underpins RIMES’s service delivery approach. With a…

RIMES undertakes hazard assessments to characterize hazards that at-risk communities face, as inputs to resilience planning.  Earthquake, tsunami, and storm surge hazard assessments use probabilistic methodologies that involve modeling, while sea level rise hazard assessment use trend analysis from long-period historical observation data.

Since its inception, RIMES has been developing and integrating tools with national and regional systems for advisory generation which are customized based on countries’ evolving needs.  Ocean state forecasting and advisory system:   Web-based system for generation of advisories based on location-specific ocean state forecast information from INCOIS’ Indian Ocean Forecast System (INDOFOS). The system disseminates…

RIMES operates a 24/7 regional facility for earthquake monitoring and tsunami warning, with the following capabilities: Automatic seismic data acquisition system: Antelope and SeisComP are used as redundant systems Sea level data acquisition system: Global Telecommunication System (GTS) link through Maldives and customized Tide Tool run as redundant systems Database of pre-computed tsunami simulations Near…