First face-to-face meeting of RA II Coordination Panel on Hydrology and Water Resources (RA II CP-Hydrology)
The first face-to-face RA II CP-Hydrology Meeting was held in a hybrid format at Vientiane, Lao PDR from 31 October to 1 November 2022.
This meeting was a follow-up to the first virtual meeting with the objective of updating the RAII Operating Plan for hydrology and water resources deliverables with milestones and timelines.
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Final Report
1st face-to-face RAII CP-Hydrology Meeting - Report
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Monday, 31 October 2022 |
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08:45 - 09:00 |
Registration |
All |
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09:00 - 09:05 |
Opening Remarks |
Hyo Seob Cho, Chair RA II CP-Hydrology |
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09:05 - 09:10 |
Welcome Remarks |
Sung Kim, Co-chair RA II CP-Hydrology and Regional Hydrological Adviser RA II
Inthavy Akkharath, Director-General, Department of Water Resources, Lao PDR |
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09:10 - 09:20 |
Introductions and group photo |
All |
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09:20 - 09:40 |
Hydrology in WMO |
Hwirin Kim |
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09:40 - 10:00 |
Recap of first virtual meeting of RA II CP-Hydrology and updates since then |
Sung Kim |
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10:00 - 10:30 |
CP-H Project 1 - Promote cooperation in hydrology and water resources among RA II Members and ensure coordination among the hydrology substructures in RA II |
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1 - Enhancement of flood resilience through platforms on water resilience and disasters |
Mamoru Miyamoto |
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2- Expansion of Integrated Flood Management (IFM) HelpDesk to include Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) |
Mamoru Miyamoto |
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10:30 - 10:45 |
Coffee/tea break |
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10:45 - 11:30 |
CP-H Project 1 - Promote cooperation in hydrology and water resources among RA II Members and ensure coordination among the hydrology substructures in RA II (continued) |
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3- Use of APFM HelpDesk to promote development of extrabudgetary project proposals in RA II |
Nguyen Hoang Minh |
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20 Years of APFM |
Hwirin Kim |
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4 - Capacity building in hydrology and water resources (with focus on Central Asia region) |
Tursyn Tillakarim |
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5 - Support to ongoing extrabudgetary projects in hydrology and water resources in RA II |
Nguyen Hoang Minh |
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11:30 - 11:45 |
CP-H Project 2 - Improve capabilities on Water Resources Assessment |
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1 - Implementation of Dynamic Water Resources Assessment Tool (DWAT) |
Cheolhee Jang Hyeonjun Kim |
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11:45 - 12:30 |
Expert Team on Hydrometry - Reinforcing Members' capacity in hydrometry and sediment transport |
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1 - Recommendations on improvements to the RA II Survey regarding NHSs including hydrological stations |
Discussions |
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2 - Training courses including online content for development of rating curves (from field measurement to assessment of rating) |
Eunjeung Shim |
Document |
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12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch break |
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14:00 - 14:15 |
CP-H Project 2 - Improve capabilities on Water Resources Assessment (continued) |
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2 - Quarterly seasonal hydrological outlook report provided to major water users including efficacy of seasonal outlook |
Sergei Borsch Serik Sairov |
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14:15 - 14:45 |
Expert Team on Hydrometry - Reinforcing Members' capacity in hydrometry and sediment transport (continued) |
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3 - Software tools and methods for measuring discharge including backwater and tidal influence and introduction of new technique for measurement of sediment |
Youngsin Roh |
Presentation (same as activity -2 under ET-HM) Document |
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4 - Implementation of WMO Hydrological Observing System (WHOS) |
Discussions |
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14:45 - 15:30 |
Expert Team on Hydrological Services - Improvement in Hydrological Services |
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1 - Report of comparative studies on hydrological measurements, information provision and hydrological services for RA II Members |
Yashar Falamarzi |
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2 - Flood hazard map for pilot site |
Selvarajah Hemakanth |
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3 - Final version of the Guidelines on verification of hydrological forecasts (under development by SC-HYD) with comments and feedback from RA II |
Valeria Koliy |
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15:30 - 15:45 |
Coffee/tea break |
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15:45 - 17:30 |
Expert Team on Hydrological Services - Improvement in Hydrological Services (continued) |
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4 - Integrated Decision Support System (DSS) for flood and drought forecasting concept developed for a pilot site |
Mohammed Arifuzzaman Bhuyan |
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5 - Technical report on approaches to establishing the deterministic error in NWP outputs and how they should best be used in establishing hydrological forecasts with enhanced accuracy |
Pulak Guhathakurta |
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6 - Technical report on review of the "Experiences on modeling of snowpack, depth of freezing soil in permafrost in operational hydrological modeling to produce streamflow discharge and groundwater contributions" |
Valeria Koliy |
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7 - Training material on modeling of cryosphere components within hydrological modeling with an emphasis on their contributions to river discharge and groundwater levels |
Valeria Koliy |
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8 - Case studies on the application of Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) to hydrological hazards |
Fatah Masthawee |
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9 - Case studies on the application of APFM guidance on dissemination of alerts and flood management practices, including best use of hydrological forecasts to support flood management decision making |
Jihoon Park |
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17:30 - 18:00 |
Discussions |
Hyo Seob Cho |
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Tuesday, 1 November 2022 |
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09:00 - 09:10 |
Recap of Day 1 |
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09:10 - 10:30 |
Update RA II Operating Plan with milestones, timelines and draft report of first face-to-face CP-H Meeting |
WMO Secretariat |
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10:30 - 10:45 |
Coffee/tea break |
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10:45 - 11:30 |
Update RA II Operating Plan with milestones, timelines and draft report first face-to-face CP-H Meeting (continued) |
WMO Secretariat |
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11:30 - 12:15 |
Way Forward (Next steps, tentative timelines for next meeting, modalities of meeting) |
Hyo Seob Cho |
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12:15 - 12:30 |
Closing remarks |
Sung Kim |
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