Existing Facilities, Needs and Gaps of

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Existing Facilities, Needs and Gaps of DMH
Department of Meteorology and Hydrology
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Department of Meteorology and Hydrology
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Department of Meteorology and Hydrology
Objectives of DMH

• To exchange Information with other centers on
  Weather , Water and Earthquakes
• To safeguard the people from losing their lives
  and property by issuing the Early Warnings and
  Bulletins for all Weather, Water and Geological
  related hazards.
• To expand the Public Awareness and Education
  programmes on Natural Disasters, Natural Hazards
  and Environmental Issues.
• To monitor on Climate Change, underground water
  resourses, air and water quality of Myanmar
• To assist to all authorities from Transport,
  Health, Agriculture, Construction, Health and
  Tourism by providing weather, hydrological and
  seismological information.
• To assist in all National projects.

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Forecast, Warning, Bulletin and News issued by DMH

• Daily, Dekad, Monthly and Seasonal
• Weather Water level forecast
• Aviation Weather Forecast
• Shipment Weather Forecast
• Squall Wind Weather Forecast
• Coastal Area Forecast
• Storm Warning
• Storm Surge Warning
• Untimely Rainfall Warning
• Fog Warning
• Heavy Rain Warning
• Flood warnings Flood Bulletin
• Minimum alert WL in Low flow period
• Tsunami Warning
• Earthquake News
• Agro-meteorological Bulletin

Coastal Length 2287 Km
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Stations in Myanmar

• Meteorological - 63
• Meteorological Hydrological - 39
• Hydrological -
  30
• Pilot balloon -
  5
• Radiosonde -
  1
• Agromet -
  18
• Satellite receiving -
  1
• Aviation Met. Offices - 6

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Meteorological Station
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Met Hydro Station
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Hydrological Station
River forecasting Stations in
Myanmar Ayeyarwady - 12 Stations Chindwin
- 5 Stations Sittaung - 2
Stations Thanlwin - 1 Station Dokhtawady
- 2 Stations Bago - 1
Station Shwegyin - 1 Station Ngawon -
1 Station
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Agrometeorological Station
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Meteorological Forecast
Satellite
Observation stations
Internet
MRTV
Ministry of Transport
Higher Authority
Local Authorities
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Hydrological Forecast
Observation stations
MRTV
Ministry of Transport
Higher Authority
Local Authorities
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Seismological Stations in MYANMAR
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Earthquake Recording Equipments -
Electromagnetic Seismographs - Japanese
Katsujima Short period and long period
Seismographs - K-2 Digitized Seismograph -
Strong Motion Accelerographs - Very broad band
Digitized Seismographs
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Strong Motion Network in Myanmar
Pyay
Sittwe
Bago
Myitkyina
Nyaung U
Meiktila
Pathein
Monywa
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YGN
MDY
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Tsunami Warning
JMA
PTWC
MRTV
Ministry of Transport
Higher Authority
Local Authorities
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Sea Level Guage Stations
Sittwe Mawlamyine
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• Existing Data Receiving Instruments
• - 1973 APT and Polaroid Camera (VCP from USA)
  
• - 1982 APT (VCP from USA)
• - 1985 NEC- Nesdus 70 (JICA)
• - 1995 TECNAVIA Skyceiver (National
  Budget)
• - 2001 Feng-Yun (Yangon) (VCP from
  China)
• - 2005 PCVSAT (VCP from China)
• VCP are through WMO Program

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Existing Data Receiving Instruments (cont.)
Satellite Receiver (Nay Pyi Taw)
Feng Yun (VCP from China) GTS Link (Yangon)
(YGN - New Delhi YGN - BKK) UHF Radio
Communication (Yangon) AWOS (Yangon, Sittwe,
Dawei) GPS (Yangon, Sittwe, Dawei) Automatic
Raingauge ( 6 stations) Digicora Radiosonde
(Mandalay) SSB transceiver ( 37
stations) Internet Facilities
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Accomplished Projects

• Meteorological Information Comprehensive Analysis
  Process System (MICAPS) with WMO/VCP (China)
• Upgrading of GTS with WMO

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Projects to be accomplished
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NEEDS and GAPS
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Storm Detection Radar

• Kyaukphyu
• Yangon

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Proposed S.S.B stations
SSB will be installed in DMH stations
SSB will be installed in Township Disaster
Committee Office
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Proposed FM Radio Transmitter network
Main FM station Sub station
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Proposed Sea Level Guage Station
Diamond Island
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Conventional Instruments

• Thermometers
• Maximum Minimum Thermometers
• Soil Thermometers
• Barometers
• Wind Vane and Anemometer
• Current meter for measurement of Discharge
• Water Thermometer

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Advanced Instruments

• Automatic Weather Observing Stations
• Pollution Monitoring Stations
• River Surveyor
• Dry Samplers
• Ion Chromatography
• Atomic Absorption Spectrometer

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Long-term Fellowship

• M.Sc / Ph.D. ( Meteorology)
• Diploma / M.Sc./ Ph.D. (Hydrology)
• Diploma / M.Sc./ Ph.D. (Agro-meteorology)
• Diploma / M.Sc./ Ph.D. (Seismology)
• Diploma / M.Sc./ Ph.D. (Engineering Seismology)

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Short-term Fellowship

• Numerical Weather Prediction
• Weather Forecasting
• Storm Surge Modeling
• Weather Forecasting for Aviation
• Satellite Meteorology
• Advanced River Forecasting Technique
• RS/GIS Application for Flood Hazard Mapping
• Crop-weather Modeling
• Seismology
• Maintenance and Instrumentation for
  Meteorological and Electronic Equipments

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Trainings

• Meteorology
• Aviation
• Storm Surge
• Agro-meteorology
• Satellite Meteorology
• Hydrology
• RS/GIS Application (Flood plain mapping, Flood
  hazard mapping,
• Coastal zone monitoring, Watershed
  management and water resources management)
• Seismology
• Maintenance and Instrumentation for
  Meteorological and Electronic Equipments
• Disaster Management Course

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On-job Trainings

• Seismometer maintenance
• Sea Level Gauge maintenance

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Public Awareness Trainings

• Training of trainers to develop Disasters
  (Meteorological / Hydrological / Seismological)
  awareness in the target areas

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Rescue Programme

• Risk Assessment
• Road Map

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