Hydroinformatics for Further Comprehensive Study on Environment in South-East Asia
Taikan Oki (1), Shinjiro Kanae (2)
(1) Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo
(2) Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
GAME-Tropics has been carried out under the GEWEX Asian Monsoon Experiment (GAME). Hydro-meteorological data were collected in collaboration with operational agencies in each country in South-East Asia, and special observations, such as enhanced and frequent atmospheric soundings using rawin-sonde, land surface flux measurement using towers, radar data collection, and additional installation of solar radiation and rainfall, were carried out mainly in Chao Phraya river basin in Thailand. All the data were stored and freely opened for public through GAME-Tropics data center, named GAIN-T, and they enhanced regional hydro-meteorological studies both by international participants to GAME-Tropics and by local researchers in Thailand and neighboring countries.
The success of GAME-Tropics stimulates the motivation to continue the project, and recommendation for further study under GAME-Tropics or successional project was discussed and adopted in the 2002 workshop on GAME-T and Hydrometeorological Studies in Thailand and Southeast Asia, 29-31 October 2002, ChiangRai, Thailand, and all the participants recognized its direct and indirect contributions for solving the current and future water related problems. One possible target proposed was the investigation of the gScientific Basis for a Hydro-meteorological Warning Systemh in short, medium, and long ranges for flood and drought management with the basic understanding of the Asian Monsoon System and the latest technology of monitoring and modeling.
Under the development stage of the 10-year implementation plan for establishing the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), GAME-Tropics will be a good core to support the studies on global environmental issues such as Disasters, Health, Energy, Climate, Water, Weather, Ecoystems, Agriculture and Desertification, and Biodiversity in South-East Asia through development of the integrated information system on hydroinformatics. Current GAME-T covers mainly physical side of the hydrological cycles, and the collaboration with more human dimension oriented projects such as START (System for Analysis, Research and Training) will be one of the keys to success the GAME-T or following project.
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Taikan Oki
09-Aug-04-14:38:40
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Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo