01/ISTWG/01 Agenda Item: Sub Group D APEC Research Center for Typhoon and Society (ACTS) 01 Activity Plan: Asia-Pacific Weather Radar Data Exchange and Network for Landfall Typhoons Purpose: Information Submitted by: Chinese Taipei rd Industrial Science and Technology Working Group Meeting Taipei, Chinese Taipei - August 01
APEC Research Center for Typhoon and Society (ACTS) Proposal for 01: Ai Asia-Pacific ifi Weather Radar Data Exchange and Network for Landfall Typhoons Presented by: Prof. Ben Jong-Dao Jou Chief Executive Officer, ACTS Co-proposed by Chinese Taipei and the Philippines, August, 01 ISTWG- Meeting, Taipei Outline Progress of ACTS 01 Summary of 01 APTS, WG, SAC, and SC meetings Summary of 01 ACTS 1 st Workshop at Bangkok ACTS Publications ACTS activities and researches in 01 1
APEC 0 th ISTWG Meeting, DC 1st ACTS Workshop, Cebu, the Philippines ACTS Manila Office Opening, Manila nd ACTS Workshop, Jhongli, Chinese Taipei Jan Feb Mar April May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 011 APTS, ACTS SC, SAC, WG Meetings, Chinese Taipei Missions of ACTS Improving the basic understanding of typhoons, Technology development for better typhoon monitoring and forecasting, Experience sharing Social-economic impacts and vulnerability study to reduce losses Training workshop for capacity building APEC 1th ISTWG Meeting, San Francisco Forum on Empowering Women in Post-Disaster Recovery and Resilience Enhancement, Taipei 1 st ACTS Workshop on Advanced Technology for Reducing Public Health Impacts after Heavy Rains, Bangkok APEC th ISTWG, Kazan, Russia APEC th ISTWG, Taipei nd ACTS Workshop on Communicating Risk and Uncertainty, Taipei Jan Mar Jun Sep Dec Jan Feb Mar April May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec APEC QPE/QPF Workshop, Manila with EPWG Asia Pacific Natural Hazard Conference, Honolulu ACTS SC, SAC, WG Meetings and 01 APEC Typhoon Symposium : TC Prediction and Disaster Prevention, with TTFRI, Taipei
5 Date Time June 5 (TUE) June 6 (WED) June 7 (THU) 08-10a m 10-1 am 1-15 pm Opening + Keynote (I) Keynote (II) M 1 H 1 S 1 M M H H Keynote (III) S S Field Study Trip: Yuansantze Flood Diversion Project of Keelung River, New Taipei City Shihmen Reservoir, Taoyuan County 15-17 pm 18-0 pm M H S APTS banquet S5:Concl usions/r ecommen dations/a wards ACTS-SC meeting Keynotes=9; parallel= Meteor/Hydro/ Society=7; poster = 70; total paper=150, 18 MEs and 00 participants ACTS Workshop (011-01) To build up local level social capacity on disaster mitigation against typhoon related hazards To map out a series of personnel training focusing on various subjects related to typhoon and society To deliver integrated information of weather, hazards, and social economics development Year No. Theme 011 01 01 1st nd 1st nd 1st nd Management of Typhoon and Heavy Rain related Disasters, May 5 7, Cebu, the Philippines Typhoon and Landslide Disaster: Prevention, Mitigation and Social Resilience Capacity Building, Nov, Jhongli, Chinese Taipei Public Health Impacts of Heavy Rain (Bangkok, Thailand) Communicating Risk and Uncertainty: Dialogue between Meteorologist and User (Taipei) Advanced Technology on Typhoon Monitoring and Forecasting (TBD) Climate Extremes and its Social Economic Impacts (IRRI, the Philippines) 6
01 ACTS 1 st Workshop at Bangkok 1. Staff Meeting 1. Visit TMD Meet Dr. Somchai Baimoung, Deputy Director of TMD. rd organizing committee meeting Future cooperation 1. Meeting with Mr. Atig Kainan Ahmed, ADPC. Meeting with Dr. Nares, LS of ISTWG 7/16 7/17 7/18 7/19 7/0 01 ACTS 1 st workshop at Asia Hotel Bangkok Field Study Trip 1. Sena Hospital. Ayutthaya Hospital Workshop Day 1-16 17 18 19 0 1
Workshop Day 1- Subgroup discussion/presentation 16 17 18 19 0 1 Workshop Day 16 17 18 19 0 1 Visit Sena Hospital_Successful Example Well Plan + Actions The Director of the Hospital presented: How and what we prepared before a disaster coming? Manpower and equipments quality and quantity mitigation, preparedness, Respond, Recover in flooding The hospital did not have serious impacts caused by the flood and recovered very soon, since they had PR strategy Prevention, Preparedness, Response, Recovery 5
Workshop Day 16 17 18 19 0 1 Visit Ayutthaya Hospital _Failed Example Plan Actions Ayutthaya Hospital do have 7 phases of flood plan but no awareness, no actions on the preparedness and prevention to face the flooding of last year, even their had training courses frequently. This year the hospital has already starting their preparation plan and actions. Future Cooperation Plan ACTS /ADPC /Thai Gov. TMD NIEM Vulnerability Assessment of Health Facilities - multi agency funds - regular training workshop People centered Early Warning Systems - solving communication gaps Program Multi-funds DDPM (Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation) Training Early Warming Capacity Workshop Report - Feedback 6
ACTS Newsletters ACTS Newsletter 011 No.1 Australia Flood; No. Landslides; No. Typhoons; No. Thailand Flood ACTS Newsletter 01 No.1 Gender in Disasters; No. Weather Proof on Flood and Public Health 1 st ACTS Workshop on Advanced Technology on Typhoon Monitoring and Forecasting and Social Impacts (TBD) APEC th ISTWG, Indonesia (TBA) APEC 5 th ISTWG (TBA) nd ACTS Workshop on Climate Extremes and Risk Management (IRRI, the Philippines) Jan Mar Jun Sep Dec Jan Feb Mar April May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 01 APTS, ACTS SC Meetings, Typhoon Behavior in a Warming Globe & Asia Pacific Natural Hazard Conference, Chinese Taipei Radar Data Exchange and Network for Landfall TCs Forum (Taipei) 7
APEC Weather Radar Data Exchange and Network Project for Landfall Typhoons Fame Framework ok of the poject project Project Office Conduct a survey of TC monitoring and prediction using radars among APEC MEs Making suggestions how to improve or upgrade the usage and application Data collection team (data exchange common format) Algorithm development team Training course design team Integrated information Platform Radar Networks of Asia-Pacific Philippines 8
Typhoon center, intensity, D rainfall structure and circulation retrieval Jou (NTU), Lee (NCAR), Xue (OU), Zhao (NJU), Bell (UH), Harasti (NRL), Liou (NCU) Techniques has been developed to retrieve typhoon circulation with reasonable accuracy. The technique can be designed das a tool kit and popularized among APEC MEs. Double eyewall Typhoon LEKIMA (001) Time space section of Lekima (001) 1km tangential wind Coastal Doppler Radar Network on Landfall Typhoon Forecasting using Data Assimilation Technology (Zhao, Xue, Jou, Lee 01, JGR) 9
17 1 0 5 15 5 5 9 81 8 Member Economy Website: http://www.apectyphoon.org Contact Email address: jouben@apectyphoon.org 10