Nepal
"... important supplement to other data and models used by DHM, with the real possibility of saving lives and property"
-Ram Gopal, Deputy Director DHM
Background Information
The Government of Nepal's Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM) is responsible for collecting hydrological and meteorological data throughout Nepal. Along with that, the DHM processes the data, publishes the data, and disseminates the data to various users for the verification of extreme hydrological and meteorological events required for different purposes.
Post flood in Dhading, Nepal, remediation work in progress (Parashu Ram Ghimire, 09/08/2020)
Gandaki River Basin (Carsten Nebel, 09/28/2011)
In Nepal, GEOGlOWS is being used to monitor the water resources of Nepal's major river basins, including the Karnali, Gandaki, and Koshi river basins, which originate in the high-mountain glaciers and empty into the Ganges river.
Koshi River (Jim Corbett National Park, 01/04/2017)
Three major river basins of Nepal (Karnali, Gandaki, and Koshi) (Ayushraj Gyawali, Analysis of Annual and Seasonal Temperature Variability in The Karnali River Basin, Nepal)
Predicting floods and droughts in the major river basins
The data collected by GEOGlOWS is used to help manage water resources, predict floods and droughts, and support early warning systems. Because of GEOGlOWS, the department is able to provide 24/7 service for both flood forecasting and early warning to public and related agencies during the period of monsoon season.
A Tethys web application that includes a national model developed by DHM was developed for Nepal. This application allows automatic access to forecasts in real-time which is both easy to understand and easy to share. As well, as geographic references to provinces and districts can be added as needed. This national system demonstrated how organizations with hydrological forecast responsibility could use globally generated forecasts to complement national and local efforts and provided a new way to visualize and download data in regards to individual streams.
A web application using GEOGlOWS
GEOGlOWS eliminated the requirement of each water organization having to gather their own large global data sets and develop streamflow forecasts and modeling resources by making this information accessible locally through web services to both local and national decision-makers.
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