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Proceedings of the regional knowledge forum on early warning for floods and high-impact weather events

  • ICIMOD
  • Summary

A two-day regional knowledge forum on early warning for floods and high-impact weather events organized in October 2019 brought together professionals and researchers from across the Hindu Kush Himalaya to discuss the challenges associated with the development, implementation, dissemination, and sustained use of information services for water and weather-induced disasters. Disasters often transcend country boundaries, and regional cooperation is essential to combating them. The forum, which saw participation from regional, national, and local institutions engaged in providing weather and flood forecasts as well as establishing early warning systems, proposed leveraging expertise across national boundaries. It also recommended holding regular forums at the regional level, training forecasters to generate user-friendly forecasts, training media persons and communities on technical concepts in forecasts, and engaging community networks and the private sector to relay early warning information to end users. 

  • DOI:
    10.53055/ICIMOD.956
  • Pages:
    24
  • Language:
    English
  • Published Year:
    2020
  • Publisher Name:
    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
  • Publisher Place:
    Kathmandu, Nepal