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COUNTRY REPORT

Tsukuba, Japan 19 – 22 February, 2013

“JMA/WMO TRAINING WORKSHOP ON CALIBRATION AND MAINTENANCE OF METEOROLOGICAL

INSTRUMENTS IN RA II(ASIA)’’

by Vinliam .B

HEAD OF METEOROLOGICAL NETWORK AND EARTHQUAKE

Outline :

1. Organizational Structure

2. Strategic Functions

3. Current Status of Facilities

4. Roadmap & Action Plan 2011 – 2015

5. Conclusion

1.Organizational Structure

DMH Headquarters in Vientiane Lao PDR.

Doppler RADAR by Japanese Grant

Department of Meteorology and Hydrology(DMH)

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.

Organizational Chart of DMH

Director General

Deputy Director General Deputy Director General

Administrative- Planing Division

Legal & IT Division

Hydro-Met Services & Stations at Provincial

and District Level

Weather Forecast and Aeronautical

Division

Meteorological Network and Earthquake

Division

Hydrological

Division

Climatological and Agro-Met

Division

Deputy Director General

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MONRE’s Strategy 2011-2015 (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)

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2. Strategic Functions :

The Meteorology-Hydrology and Disaster Risk Management is a part of the National IWRM Program 2011-2015

Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH) is committed to implementing this National IWRM Program consistently with the declaration of the 1st MRC Summit and implementation of the Prime Minister’s Decree No19/PM, dated July 2010 on disaster risk management and early warning system

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DMH’s Main Functions for 2011-2015

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

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3.Current Status of Facilities

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Regional Network for Data Sharing

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Vientiane

Baghdad

Doha

Kuwait

Bahrain

Dhaka

Yangon

Kathmandu

Kabul

Karachi

Colombo

Male

Hanoi

Phnom Penh

PyongYangAshgabad

Macao

64K

Dushanbe

Almaty

NI

NI

NI

Seoul

NI

NI

64K

9.6-26.4K (V.34)

14.4-28.8K (V.34)

64K64K

50

50

50

50

200

64K

64K

100

75

1200

50

100

9.6K

Offenbach

Offenbach

CairoAlgiers

Moscow

Kuala Lumpur

Tashkent

Novosibirsk

Khabarovsk

Bangkok

F/R CIR<16/16K>

F/R CIR<16/16K>

Washington

NI

NI

19.2-24K(V.34)

24-19.2K (V.34)

19.2-24K (V.34)

Bishkek

64K

Singapore

RTH in Region II

NMC in Region II

Centre in other region

MTN circuitRegional circuitInterregional circuitAdditional circuit

Non-IP linkIP linkInternet E-mail transmission

NI No implementation

Tehran

Sanaa200

Hong Kong

Moscow

NI

F/R CIR<32/32K>

Tokyo

IMTN-MDCNCIR<32/768K>

Manila

Internet

Jeddah

Muscat

64K

64K

64K

Washington

ISDN 128K

28.8-9.6K (V.34)via Moscow 14.4-28.8K (V.34)

64K

64K

Thimpu

New Delhi

NI

768K

64K

2.4K

75

64K

via Moscow

64K

100

Ulaanbaatar14.4K

Abu-Dhabi

1200

64K

9.6-26.4K (V.34)

9.6-26.4K (V.34)

Melbourne

Melbourne

IMTN-MDCNCIR<16/32K>

32K

CMAPCVSAT

64K

75

CMAPCVSAT

CMAPCVSAT

512K

MPLS

IMTN MDCNMPLS

IMTN MDCNMPLS

IMTN MDCNMPLS

IMTN MDCNMPLS

IMTN MDCNMPLS

MPLS

Internet

Internet Beijing2M

2M128K

1M

2M

1M

128K

512K

2M

2M128K

512K

2M

MPLS

2M

128K

MPLS

2M

Internet

Internet

Internet

Internet

Internet

F/R CIR<16/16K>

F/R CIR<16/16K>

F/R CIR<16/16K>

F/R CIR<16/16K>

Internet

Internet

Internet

Internet

Internet

EUMETSAT

MPLS 2M2M

Toulouse

Internet

Lao P D R

Facilities for regional involvement, GTS network

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Communications and Dissemination

DMH’s

Data Collection and Dissemination Center

http://dmhlao.etllao.com

ADSL Internet

128/ 256kbps

WMO’s

GTS RTH

Bangkok

FTP (TCP/IP) 64kbps

MTSAT Satellite

Ground Receiving Station

FENGYUN Cast Satellite

Receiving Station

C Band Doppler RADAR

RBSN & RBCN + Secondary Climatic Sts.

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Hydrological Stations

85

Earthquake

Stations 2

Weather Forecast Center

Flood Forecast Center

Government; Public; End Users = Disaster Risk Management & EWS

HF Radio

VSAT

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Hydro-met Data, information dissemination network

Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH)

http://dmhlao.etllao.com

Prime Minister’s Office

Local

Governor’s

Office

District & Village level

NDMC + Line ministries

NDMO

PDMC

DDMO

Village DM Unit

Radio

TVs

Newspapers

Hydro-met. Offices at Provinces

PAFEO

Local

Disaster risk

Areas

Hydropower dams

WREOP

WREA

- LNMC

- MRC

Aviation

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Data Flow to Users and Archiving

Secondary Climatic Stations

RBSN & RBCN Stations

Telecommunications Center at DMH’s HQ

Weather Forecast and

Flood Forecast

End Users & Public

Logbooks Climate and Agro-Met. Division

Hard Copies Storage

Archived Digitized Devices

Concerned End Users

on demands

RTH Bang Kok

3.1 Surface observation station

• Manned surface observation station - Main Synoptic Meteorological station = 17 . - Climatologically and/or Agro

meteorological Stations = 33. • Automated surface observation station = 1 Test using

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RBSN = 17 Climate St. = 33 Automated St.= 1

Typical Manned surfaces observation station with Conventional instruments

Typical automated surfaces observation station with Conventional instruments

Meteorological Network in Lao PDR

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3.2 INSTRUMENTS IN OPERATIONAL USE

Classical manual type rain gauge

Rain Gauge stations in Lao PDR = 93

Rainfall instrument Manual measurement Automatically recorded

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Automatic recorded rainfall stations = 11 stations Hydrological Cycle Observation Stations (MRC - HYCOS)

Automated data acquisition and telemetry communication

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)

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11

10 9

8 7

6

5 4

3

2

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Real time data from HYCOS Stations

HYCOS Station on Mekong & tributaries

Telemetry Mobile phone

Telemetry Satellite

National DataTerminal/Hydmet

at DMH

Internet

MRC / FMMP

FTP server

MRC

FTP server

NMCs data terminal

GPRS

Every 15mn

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Automatic data logger station

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

Rainfall instrument in operational use Manufactured by Hydrological services PTY. LMD. Tipping Bucket Rain gauge Model TB3

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Pressure Instrument in operational use

Manufactured by societe précis –Mecanique , 95870 Bezons, France OPERATIONAL USE

Manufactured by LAMBBECHT GERMANY CALIBRATION Measurement pressure Recorded pressure

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Temperature Instrument in operational use

Manufactured by LAMBRECHT GERMANY OPERATIONAL USE Measurement Temperature

Maximum Minimum

Measurement Temperature Surface temperature Underground temperature

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Huminity Instrument in operational use

OPERATIONAL USE

Manufactured by LAMBRECHT GERMANY CALIBRATION

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Wind Instrument in operational use

Manufactured by LAMBRECHT GERMANY OPERATIONAL USE properties

Manufactured by LAMBRECHT GERMANY OPERATIONAL USE properties - wind direction - wind speed

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Sunshine duration Instrument in operational use

Manufactured by LAMBRECHT GERMANY CALIBRATION Measurement sunshine duration

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Recording Instrument

Manufactured by LAMBRECHT GERMANY CALIBRATION Test run battery is not sufficient

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3.3 Standards and equipments for calibration

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

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4. Problem in observation and instrument

Capacity is low

Lack of Knowledge of maintenace

Instruments for hydro-met data collection &

dissemination network are old

4 .1 Action Plan 2011-2015 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

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.