Day 2 of the Asian Water Cycle Symposium began with a drought session featuring former ICHARM member Dr. Ali Chavoshian, who is now Director of the RCUWM in Iran. Given the high number of people affected by droughts, an Integrated Drought Monitoring/Prediction System in West and Central Asia is promoted. This system will:
- Providing drought information based on multiple indicators and data sources including satellite observations and local ground-based data.
- Providing multi-model multi-index seasonal drought prediction information for the region.
- Develop a user-friendly system for dissemination of the Drought information.
PhD student Yohei Sawada from the Tokyo University introduced a monitoring system including the Leaf Area Index.
Next up was a session with reports on capacity building from ICHARM former master students from Serbia, India, Nepal, Nigeria, Thailand, Colombia, and Bangladesh.
After lunch a session was held in separate parts on the topic of 'Toward ware disaster risk reduction in Asia and the Pacific Ocean region', which led to much discussions both in the panels and during breaks. Dr. Johannes Cullmann, Director of the Climate and Water Department at WMO, led the part on 'collection and statistics of water disaster data'. Aside from the excellent data rich environment in the Philippines, we also saw the plans of Prof. Ono from the Tohoku University to centralize and manage the data collection of the upcoming Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
The second part was hosted by Prof. Srikantha Herath from the UNU, on Inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary cooperation, and the third and final on the promotion of regional cooperation, hosted by Prof. Shahbaz Khan, Director of UNESCO. Prof. Koike, director of ICHARM, closed off the day by summarizing the most important takeaway messages from all sessions in the symposium. You can find a copy of all the presentation files on the symposium website.
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