SOP for Flood Forecasting & Early Warning - UNESCO Islamabad

More documents

Recommendations

Info

$Math Lesson Plans level 4 Term 1$

PM, only on occasions when flood situation is serious enough to call for such briefings to filter out unauthorized and incorrect flood information from reaching public. A written report to be passed to radio and TV is also given out by the press representative. C ) Special Press Briefings By Minister of Water & Power / Chairman FFC or Chairman NDMA Chief Met FFD may advise the Minister of Water & Power/ Chairman FFC or Chairman NDMA to conduct special press briefings with a view to providing such information to the public as is considered extremely useful in the context of flood mitigation. This advice is rendered as and when a serious flood situation is positively developing or has actually developed. The outline for the briefings is to be prepared by the Chief Net FFD under the advice of the authority, i.e Minister of Water & Power / Chairman FFC or Chairman NDMA. Withstanding and specific instructions given to Chief Met FFD by the Authority (conducting the briefings) a general outline of such briefings may be as follows: i ) A brief mention of the prevailing weather system indicating its past track , present position and future track . Indicate the areas under heavy rain. Ii ) Mention of a few heavy rainfall amounts in ( India or Pakistan ) and any reported damage . In case heaviest point rainfall data is not available; Radar based rainfall may be mentioned indicating the time duration and areas of the heaviest rainfall. Iii ) A brief on present and future flood situation in respect of each river indicating any damages (If so far reported) Iv ) Mention of the flood mitigation arrangements to cope with flood emergency. Advice to the Flood prone population to remain vigilant and follow the advice to refrain from publishing unauthentic flood information for incorrect reporting. V ) Question / answer session ( Indicate answers to the commonly asked question ) Vi ) Concluding remarks. c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop\cd material nust\international training workshop\session 5\2_sop pmd_51 pages.doc
Chapter 3 Responsibilities of the FFD and Stakeholders 3.1 General Flood management is a multifunctional process involving organization. The stakeholders, which play major role in the flood management , is PIDA , WAPDA, provincial relief organization, Pakistan Army, NDMA, PCIW, Emergency Relief Cell, FFC and FFD. Proper understanding of functions of these organizations is briefly described below. 3.2 Responsibilities of Flood Forecasting Division (FFD) FFD of the Pakistan Meteorological Department plays a pivotal role in the entire flood mitigation process. Hydro meteorological data from the various national and international sources is received in this office which is then processed to produce flood forecasts and warnings to be disseminated outwards to various national organizations (Annex-9) Major actions required to be taken by the FFD before, during and after the flood season are summarized below. Flood preparatory Measures I ) Ensure serviceability of the meteorological equipment including QPM Radars Lahore, Mangla and Sialkot, Teleprinter network, FAX, APT& Internet. Ii ) Ensure availability of the following items in sufficient to last for the whole of flood season: Surface and upper air meteorological charts, isohyetal maps, various forecast forms, data tabulation sheets stationery etc. Iii ) Iv ) Update the calibration of the radar and flood forecasting models Ensure availability of sufficient staff strength to maintain round the clock roster of duties for the meteorological and hydrological work. c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop\cd material nust\international training workshop\session 5\2_sop pmd_51 pages.doc
Page 1 and 2: c:\documents and settings\administr
Page 3 and 4: Introduction Planes of Pakistan hav
Page 5 and 6: Chapter 1 Flood Causes & Management
Page 7 and 8: Table 1.3 S.No. Flood Limits NAME O
Page 9 and 10: c. Continue moving in the northerly
Page 11 and 12: the financial and technical support
Page 13 and 14: Heaviest and the most frequent summ
Page 15 and 16: i) Qualitative flood forecast ii) Q
Page 17 and 18: High/Critical flood equivalent to _
Page 19: ) Areal Flood Inundation Flood Fore
Page 23 and 24: placed in the forecasts issued by C
Page 25 and 26: especially in respect of the river
Page 27 and 28: season. During the flood emergency,
Page 29 and 30: the Engineers. Lack of understandin
Page 31 and 32: FFC was established in 1977 to prov
Page 33 and 34: Sukkur and Kotri barrages were rece
Page 35 and 36: appropriate recipient: the flood fo
Page 37 and 38: FLOOD ROUTING THROUGH MANGLA RESERV
Page 39 and 40: Annexture-5C FLOOD ROUTING THROUGH
Page 51: c:\documents and settings\administr

SOP for Flood Forecasting & Early Warning - UNESCO Islamabad

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?