Bangladesh's Meghna River will be the focus of advanced modeling effort

New Nation (Bangladesh): In view of looming impact of climate change, a 10-year implementation plan has been taken under the framework of Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) to improve sustainable water resource management in Bangladesh.

The GEOSS, an alliance of 52 national governments including European Commission, is assisting South Asian 18 countries including Bangladesh to improve the countries water resources management though sharing data and information system as part of regional cooperation among the south Asian regions.

Bangladesh is going to evolve a model for forecasting flood and rainfall in the river Meghna. After completion of the Meghna model by 2011, country's all other river basins will be brought under the model attuned to the Meghna. As part of the move, Asian Water Cycle Initiative (AWCI) under the GEOSS, a comprehensive environmental data and information provider worldwide, has selected Bangladesh's Meghna river basin as a model basin.

…Talking to BSS, Head of Synoptic division of SAARC Meteorological research Centre (SMRC) Dr Nazrul Islam said that the earth system will provide Bangladesh with proper inputs for actual projection of climate change towards formulation of planned climate change adaptation strategy. Scientist Dr Islam, however, observed that the SMRC urgently required a high-powered server worth to be about Taka 12 crore for long-time and permanent climate change forecasting. The server will help keep the planned Meghna model operational….

A boat at the launch ghat of Narsingdi's Meghna River, shot by Alrazy Sonet, Wikimedia Commons, under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation license, Version 1.2