As technical Officer (Meteorology), Sabrina provides technical support in meteorological data analysis, integration and model/application development. She supports in running and customizing numerical weather prediction models, processing and analyzing meteorological data of the Bangladesh Meteorological Department. She also assists in research, capacity building activities, documentation and periodic reporting of project implementation and evaluation.
As Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Specialist, Shalinda provides support to the RIMES Sri Lanka National Centre for Climate Applications (SNCCA). He coordinates with country partners and provides assistance to project activities at national and community levels. Shalinda supports the development and implementation of User-Relevant End-to-End, People-Centered Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems. He assists in project development, monitoring, evaluation and documentation. Shalinda has participated in and facilitated training and workshops on weather, water and climate risk management.
The project established a climate risk management field school in Nagapattinam District of Tamil Nadu State, India. It involved curriculum adaptation; training material development; 6-day training of block level agriculture officers as trainers; and training of 30 lead farmers from various blocks of the district, over one planting season. Deliverables included inception report, training modules, training report, and final report.
The project aims to establish reliable climate projections based on the results of the 5th IPCC report, responding to the needs of national actors in climate resilience and adaptation in Madagascar, and provide DGM with technical assistance to run Regional Climate Model downscaling at national level.
Activities include:
Assessment of needs of priority sectors on climatic parameters
Provision and operationalization of software for scaling climate projections at DGM
Training of DGM staff on implementing downscaling models and on results interpretation
As Strategic Partnership Advisor, Abdoulaye Harou supports RIMES through advice and inputs for formulating strategic, policy as well as programme/ project documents and instruments to take forward the collaboration with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Abdoulaye served as Chief, Data-Processing and Forecasting System (DPFS) at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) from April 2014 to June 2020. For seven year (2007 to 2014) he was the Director of Aviation and Defence Weather Services with the Meteorological Service of Canada.
The project aims to support DMH to modernize their systems and tools related to: (i) NWP capabilities at DMH, (ii) operational flood forecasting system of DMH, (iii) operational agro-advisory services of DMH, and (iv) central database management system
As Regional Coordinator, Saidur supports RIMES project activities at local and field levels in Bangladesh. He is responsible for assessing progress in the field and collecting progress reports from the field facilitator. He communicates with the field facilitator and provides guidance to carry field operations. He also coordinates feedback collection from field through field facilitator and responds to the problems raised by field facilitators and communicates the issues to the program manager.
This project component aimed for availability of marine observations in support of ocean state forecasting for Seychelles and Sri Lanka. Key activities included site identification, survey, and selection; wave rider buoy acquisition, importation, and deployment; establishment of onshore data receiving facility; and development and implementation of real-time marine observation data acquisition and feedback systems.