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1 JMA/WMO TRAINING WORKSHOP ON CALIBRATION AND MAINTENANCE OF METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS IN RA II(ASIA) COUNTRY REPORT by Vinliam.B HEAD OF METEOROLOGICAL NETWORK AND EARTHQUAKE Tsukuba, Japan February,

2 Outline : 1. Organizational Structure 2. Strategic Functions 3. Current Status of Facilities 4. Roadmap & Action Plan Conclusion

3 1.Organizational Structure Department of Meteorology and Hydrology(DMH) DMH Headquarters in Vientiane Lao PDR. Doppler RADAR by Japanese Grant

4 DMH Lao PDR is one of government Departments under Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE). Organizational Structure of DMH composes of Divisions at Headquarters and Hydro-Met Services and stations at Provincial and District level.

5 Organizational Chart of DMH Director General Deputy Director General Deputy Director General Deputy Director General Administrative- Planing Division Legal & IT Division Hydrological Division Climatological and Agro-Met Division Meteorological Network and Earthquake Division Weather Forecast and Aeronautical Division Hydro-Met Services & Stations at Provincial and District Level

6 MONRE s Strategy (10 program) Water Resources and Disaster Management Cluster (3. IWRM, 4. MHDRM) National Water Resources Policy and Strategy National Integrated Water Resources Management Program (National IWRMP) 6

7 2. Strategic Functions : The Meteorology-Hydrology and Disaster Risk Management is a part of the National IWRM Program Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH) is committed to implementing this National IWRM Program consistently with the declaration of the 1 st MRC Summit and implementation of the Prime Minister s Decree No19/PM, dated July 2010 on disaster risk management and early warning system 7

8 DMH s Main Functions for Identify framework of Weather, Climate and Water related disaster risk management Establishment the early warning systems Providing meteorological and hydrological services Providing earthquake related data and information International and Regional commitments implementation 8

9 3.Current Status of Facilities 9

10 Regional Network for Data Sharing 10

11 50 Algiers NI NI Jeddah RTH in Region II NMC in Region II Centre in other region MTN circuit Regional circuit Interregional circuit Additional circuit No implementation Non-IP link IP link transmission 512K Washington 2M Facilities for regional involvement, GTS network IMTN MDCN MPLS Baghdad Kuwait Bahrain 2.4K Doha Offenbach 200 Muscat 100 Abu-Dhabi 1200 Sanaa Toulouse NI MPLS NI 2M 128K Tehran NI Moscow K (V.34) Ashgabad K (V.34) 50 NI NI Karachi 75 Cairo K (V.34) Male Kabul Almaty K (V.34) Tashkent NI 100 Lao P D R NI Bishkek K (V.34) K(V.34) Dushanbe Thimpu NI New Delhi Colombo K IMTN MDCN MPLS 128K Offenbach Dhaka via Moscow 50 Novosibirsk EUMETSAT 2M Kathmandu Yangon Singapore K (V.34) IMTN MDCN MPLS 2M 128K 2M MPLS 50 Ulaanbaatar MPLS 2M Melbourne 512K CMA PCVSAT 2M F/R CIR <16/16K> MPLS 2M 14.4K CMA PCVSAT 100 Moscow Beijing Vientiane Bangkok 75 CMA PCVSAT via Moscow MPLS 2M Hanoi 1200 F/R CIR <16/16K> Khabarovsk K (V.34) Macao 9.6K PyongYang 2M F/R CIR <32/32K> 128K Seoul Hong Kong ISDN 128K Phnom Penh Kuala Lumpur K (V.34) IMTN MDCN MPLS 1M IMTN MDCN MPLS F/R CIR <16/16K> 1M F/R CIR <16/16K> F/R CIR <16/16K> Manila Washington IMTN-MDCN CIR<32/768K> F/R CIR <16/16K> K Tokyo IMTN-MDCN CIR<16/32K> Melbourne 32K

12 Communications and Dissemination MTSAT Satellite Ground Receiving Station FENGYUN Cast Satellite Receiving Station C Band Doppler RADAR ADSL 128/ 256kbps DMH s Data Collection and Dissemination Center Weather Forecast Center WMO s GTS RTH Bangkok FTP (TCP/IP) 64kbps Flood Forecast Center HF Radio VSAT RBSN & RBCN + Secondary Climatic Sts. 50 Hydrological Stations 85 Earthquake Stations 2 Government; Public; End Users = Disaster Risk Management & EWS 12

13 Hydro-met Data, information dissemination network Hydropower dams Aviation Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH) - LNMC - MRC WREA NDMC + Line ministries NDMO Radio TVs Newspapers Prime Minister s Office Hydro-met. Offices at Provinces Local PDMC Local Disaster risk Governor s Office PAFEO WREOP DDMO Village DM Unit Areas District & Village level 13

14 Data Flow to Users and Archiving Climate and Agro-Met. Division Logbooks Secondary Climatic Stations RBSN & RBCN Stations Archived Digitized Devices Hard Copies Storage RTH Bang Kok Telecommunications Center at DMH s HQ Concerned End Users on demands End Users & Public Weather Forecast and Flood Forecast 14

15 3.1 Surface observation station Manned surface observation station - Main Synoptic Meteorological station = Climatologically and/or Agro meteorological Stations = 33. Automated surface observation station = 1 Test using

16 Meteorological Network in Lao PDR Typical Manned surfaces observation station with Conventional instruments RBSN = 17 Climate St. = 33 Automated St.= 1 Typical automated surfaces observation 16 station with Conventional instruments

17 3.2 INSTRUMENTS IN OPERATIONAL USE Rainfall instrument Manual measurement Automatically recorded Classical manual type rain gauge Rain Gauge stations in Lao PDR = 93 17

18 Automatic recorded rainfall stations = 11 stations Hydrological Cycle Observation Stations (MRC - HYCOS) Automated data acquisition and telemetry communication 3 Mekong = 2 stations 1. Vientiane (km4) 2. Pakse Tributaries = 9 st. 3. Muang Ngoy (Nam Ou) 4. Muang Nan (Nam Khan) 5. Phou Kout (Nam Ngum) 6. Napae (Nam Phao) 7. Xebangfai (Nam Xebangfai) 8. Mahaxai (Nam Xebangfai) 9. Sobnam (Nam Xebanghieng) 10. Kengdone (Nam Xebanghieng) 11. Veunkhen (Nam Xekong) 18

19 Real time data from HYCOS Stations National DataTerminal/Hydmet at DMH Telemetry Satellite GPRS Every 15mn MRC / FMMP FTP server Telemetry Mobile phone NMCs data terminal HYCOS Station on Mekong & tributaries MRC FTP server 19

20 Automatic data logger station Rainfall instrument in operational use Manufactured by Hydrological services PTY. LMD. Tipping Bucket Rain gauge Model TB3 Acquisition of data from sensors & upload into GPRS network OTT Equipment. All systems (OTT CBS, OTT DuoSens, TB3, Battery and Solar panel is in good condition 20

21 Pressure Instrument in operational use Manufactured by societe précis Mecanique, Bezons, France OPERATIONAL USE Manufactured by LAMBBECHT GERMANY CALIBRATION Measurement pressure Recorded pressure 21

22 Temperature Instrument in operational use Manufactured by LAMBRECHT GERMANY OPERATIONAL USE Measurement Temperature Maximum Minimum Measurement Temperature Surface temperature Underground temperature 22

23 Huminity Instrument in operational use OPERATIONAL USE Manufactured by LAMBRECHT GERMANY CALIBRATION 23

24 Wind Instrument in operational use Manufactured by LAMBRECHT GERMANY OPERATIONAL USE properties Manufactured by LAMBRECHT GERMANY OPERATIONAL USE properties - wind direction - wind speed 24

25 Sunshine duration Instrument in operational use Manufactured by LAMBRECHT GERMANY CALIBRATION Measurement sunshine duration 25

26 Recording Instrument Manufactured by LAMBRECHT GERMANY CALIBRATION Test run battery is not sufficient 26

27 3.3 Standards and equipments for calibration Standard and equipments for calibration, before up to now ours service does not have them. 27

28 4. Problem in observation and instrument Capacity is low Lack of Knowledge of maintenace Instruments for hydro-met data collection & dissemination network are old 28

29 4.1 Action Plan A. Policy, strategy, Decree and law related to Meteorological-Hydrological and Earthquake B. Establishment Early Warning Systems for flood, drought and multi-natural hazards C. Projects contributing to regional commitments on data sharing and exchanges D. Strengthening the capacity of DMH for disaster risk management & Services of weather, Climate and hydrological products to aviation, agriculture and other sectors related to the water resources management and linked to Food Security. 29

30 5. Conclusion In fulfilling mandate and functions, DMH has been encountering various challenges. DMH has been striving for its improvement on both capability of human resources and technical facilities (Instrument for operating use, standard and equipment for calibration) External supports are the most key reliable resources, DMH has to request for transfer of knowledge, funds, expertise, technical assistance, consultancy to be provided by development partners and government.

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