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Strategic Plan on Capacity Building & Cooperation of Thai Meteorological Department Chongkolnee Yusabye Meteorological Development Bureau TMD

TMD Strategic Vision • A dexterous organization meeting the wide variety of critical users’ meteorological and related information requirements for continuously improved and sustainable economic, social, and environmental development.

TMD Mission • 1. To efficiently and accurately produce meteorological and related warnings and forecasts nationwide when decision and policy makers need them to reduce impacts of natural disasters • 2. To use the most technologically advanced information services and methods to increase the public’s natural disaster awareness and to have them correctly respond when a natural disaster occurs to save lives and minimize impacts

• 3. To be the source of national meteorological and related information and services to various types of users to help them complete their missions • 4. To enhance international cooperation in environmental issues

TMD Strategic Issues • Issue: 1. Meteorological and related loss of life and socio-economic impacts • Issue: 2. Public awareness • Issue: 3. Education, training, and research • Issue: 4 TMD’s effectiveness • Issue: 5 International collaboration and partnership • Issue: 6 Climate variability and change • Issue: 7 Nation’s needs for meteorological and related information

TMD Strategic Issues and Goals

• Issue: 1. Meteorological and related loss of life and socio-economic impacts • Goal : Reduce meteorological and related loss of life • Goal : Beneficial meteorological and related socio-economic impacts • Issue: 2. Public Awareness • Goal : Strengthen public awareness • Issue: 3. Education, training, and research • Goal : Capacity building through education, training, and research

TMD Strategic Issues and Goals

• Issue: 4 TMD’s effectiveness • Goal: Enhance TMD’s effectiveness • Issue: 5 International collaboration and partnership • Goal: Promote International collaboration and partnership • Issue: 6 Climate variability and change • Goal: Investigate and understand climate variability and change • Issue: 7 Nation’s needs for meteorological and related information • Goal: Support Nation’s needs for meteorological and related information

Operational Guidelines • Issue: 3 Education, training, and research • Build up the staffs’ knowledge together with capacity so that they can produce academic works • Provide tools and any other facilities to support research projects • Foster academic as well as research cooperation with related academic institutes and working units • Arrange academic meetings / seminars which the public can partake

Operational Guidelines • Issue: 5. International collaboration and partnership • Ensure TMD experts to attend international meetings and participate int’l experiments • Participate in regional & related organizations

Operational Guidelines • Issue: 6. Climate variability and change • Investigate hardware / software technology to enhance the efficiency of data storage/archive system • Seek technical, training & expert cooperation & assistance to develop a climate model within / for TMD • Increase the effectiveness of the National Climate Center of Thailand operations (NCCT)

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Activity on Fiscal Year 2008

Regional Training Course in Agricultural Meteorology : The Agrometeorology of Natural Disasters and Extreme Climatic Events in South East Asia (10 – 21 March 2008)

Regional Events hosted by TMD during fiscal year 2007 (1 Oct 2006 - 30 Sep 2007 ) • WMO CLIPS Focal Points Training Workshop for Regional Association II (Eastern Part), Bangkok, 15 – 27 January 2007, co-organized by WMO, participated by 25 participants from B ahrain, Japan, China, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos, Mongolia, Ho ng Kong, Republic of Korea, and lecturers from Australia, Fra nce, India, and USA. • Integrated Workshop on Social-economic Impacts of Extreme Typhoon related Events, Bangkok, 10 -14 September 2007, co-hosted by UNESCAP in cooperation with WMO, TCS, participated by 75 participants from Typhoon Committee member country

International cooperation for National Events hosted by TMD during fiscal year 2007 (1 Oct 2006- 30 Sep 2007) •

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Postgraduate International Training Course on Application of Meteorology in Agriculture and Water Management), TMD Headquarters, Bangkok, 12 – 23 March 2007, in cooperatio n with Israel Embassy in Bangkok, RMTC Israel, and MASHAV (Ministry of Foreign Affai rs of Israel), participated by 43 participants from agricultural-related government and privat e agencies in Thailand. Seminar on Cloud-Chemistry Model Application at TMD Headquarters, Bangkok, 13 – 15 June 2007, in cooperation with Dr. Vlado Spiridonov, Macedonia Meteorological Servi ce, participated by 40 meteorologists of TMD. Training Course on Application of Integrated Aeronautical Meteorological Data for Aviation, Bureau of Meteorology for Transportation of TMD, Bangkok, 20 – 26 July 2007, in cooperation with Hong Kong Observatory, participated by 50 staff from TMD. Training Seminar on Introduction to the Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART) Tsunameter at TMD Headquarters, Bangkok, 27-29 August 2007, co-or ganized by NOAA, participated by 26 operational staff from tsunami-related government an d private agencies in Thailand, such as TMD, AIT, ADPC, SEAFDEC and NDWC. Training Seminar on Hydrological Forecast and Flood Warning System at TMD Headquarters, Bangkok, 27-31 August 2007, in cooperation with Dr. Vlado Spiridonov, Ma cedonia Meteorological Service, participated by 20 meteorologists from TMD.

Regional Events hosted by TMD during first half of fiscal year 2008 (1 Oct 2007- 31Mar 2008) •

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WMO-IOC Workshop on the GTS for Effective Exchange of Tsunami Warnings, Related Information and other Warnings in th e Indian Ocean. :Bangkok, 18 – 20 December 2007, in cooperation with WMO and NOAA, participated by 26 participants from 17 countries effe cted by tsunamis and 10 resource persons from WMO, Australia, Japan, USA, Germany, Belgium and France. Regional Training Course in Agricultural Meteorology” The Agrometeorolgoy of Natural Disasters and Extreme Climatic Eve nts in South East Asia. :TMD Headquarters, Bangkok, 10 – 21 March 2008, participated by 45 participants from agriculture-related agencies in Thailand, L aos, Myanmar and Malaysia.

Future Regional Events to be hosted by TMD during the second half of fiscal year 2008 (1 Apr 2007- 30 Sep 2008) Japan –Thailand Estuary Workshop, Bangkok Estuary Workshop at TMD Headquarters, 19 – 20 August 2008, in collaboration with Tohoku University of Japan and Rangsit University, King Mongkut’s University Technology Thonburi of Thailand. Future Regional Events to be hosted by TMD during fiscal year 2009 (1 Oct 2008- 30 Sep 2009) The 41st Session of ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee, November 2008, tentatively to be held at Chieng Mai Province, Thailand

List of International, Regional Trainings attended by TMD Staff During first half of fiscal year 2008 (1 Oct 2007 – 31 Mar 2008) Training course on Operational Flood Forecasting System and Its Application : China : 2 China-ASEAN Training Course on application of Satellite Remote Sensing and Satellite Communication Technologies in Disaster Reduction : China : 2 CLIMSOFT Training Workshop and Climate Data Homogenization and Climate Changes Indices Seminar : Vietnam : 1 Training on Urban Stormwater Management : Malaysia : 1 Training course on Meteorology and Environmental Aspects Sustainable Water Management : Israel : 1 Training on Initial Forecasting Course 2008 : England : 2 Training on Initial Forecasting Course 2008EnglandTraining on Operational Tropical Forecasting : India : 1

Local Cooperation

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