200 - Typhoon Committee
200 - Typhoon Committee
200 - Typhoon Committee
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ESCAP/WMO<br />
<strong>Typhoon</strong> <strong>Committee</strong> Annual Review <strong>200</strong>7<br />
In Thailand<br />
1. Progress in Member’s Regional<br />
Cooperation and Selected Strategic Plan<br />
Goals and Objectives:<br />
a. Hardware and/or Software Progress<br />
+The tropical cyclones and other NWP forecasts<br />
from other forecasting centers such as RSMC<br />
Tokyo, ECMWF, IMD, KMA, and BOM have been<br />
taken in to considerations together with TMD’s<br />
NWP products for more forecasting accuracy, in<br />
both medium and long range terms.<br />
c. Interaction with users, other Members,<br />
and/or other components<br />
+ To enhance data exchanges among the TC<br />
Members, the Bangkok – Singapore GTS circuit<br />
has been upgraded from X.25, speed 9.6Kbps to<br />
the TCP/IP Frame Relay with the speed of 16 Kbps<br />
(CIR), and Bangkok – Phnom Penh GTS circuit has<br />
also been connected using VPN via internet.<br />
+To strengthen the Indian Ocean Tsunami<br />
Warning System, TMD in collaboration with NOAA<br />
will deploy 2 more DART Bouys (Deep-ocean<br />
Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami) in <strong>200</strong>7-<br />
<strong>200</strong>8 after the first DART Bouy was installed in<br />
December <strong>200</strong>6. It will be a major milestone of the<br />
Tsunami warning system in the region for all 27<br />
Indian Ocean countries. The detected information<br />
and Tsunami warning message will be disseminated<br />
via the GTS of TMD for all to access.<br />
+ TMD has developed a website at Suvarnabhumi<br />
Airport to facilitate data users( Air lines) to immediately<br />
access necessary data for the Take-off Condition, and<br />
other data including TAFOR, SIGMET, and METAR.<br />
d. Training Progress<br />
During 1 October <strong>200</strong>6 – 30 September <strong>200</strong>7, the staff of<br />
the TMD has opportunities to participate in the overseas<br />
training courses as shown below:<br />
+ Installed a new communication system to<br />
improve the stability and speed of international<br />
data exchanges, and developed the Tsunami<br />
information check and monitoring system from<br />
GTS.<br />
+To support Tsunami warning system, 9 tidal<br />
gauges will be added to the existing 9 tidal<br />
gauges deployed in the Andaman Sea along<br />
the coastal areas of Southern Thailand. The<br />
installations are expected to completed by <strong>200</strong>8 .<br />
With the expanding coverage of the tidal gauges,<br />
TMD assures that the tidal wave monitoring will<br />
contribute beneficial information for the betterment<br />
of Tsunami warning in the Indian Ocean region..<br />
b. Implications to Operational Progress<br />
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