IUKWC Workshop Nov16: Developing Hydro-climatic Services for Water Security – Session 6.2 edited Dipanjana Maulik

1. Dr. Dipanjana Maulik
Senior Environment Officer
Department of Environment
Government of West Bengal
30th November 2016
India Water UK Centre, IITM Pune

2.  Non availability of location specific information
 Irregular updates
 In accessible information
 Unidirectional information channel
 Information (even if available ) is scripted in hard
core scientific language

3.  Downscaling of Global Circulation Models
To district level, block level, ward level
 Regular Updates
 Improved accessibility
 Platform for feed back sharing
 Starting dialogue in common language or use
of “interpreters”

4.  Limited monitoring stations or scanty historical
data
 Limited finance and human resource
 Gap in communication and information network
 Who will volunteer?
 Is there any body available?

5. “The changes in terrestrial water storage (TWS) and
global cryosphere together explain nearly the
entire amplitude(83+23%) and mean directional
shift (within 5.90 + 7.60) of the observed motion.”
(Ref: Adhikari and Ivins, Climate-driven polar
motion:2003-2015, Climatology, 2016, page 1-10)

6. • GCP (Global Circulation Pattern)
• PDO (Pacific Decadal Oscillation)
• AMO (Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation)
• IOD (Indian Ocean Dipole)
• NAO (North Atlantic Oscillation)
• OACP (Ocean Atmospheric Circulation
Pattern)
In search of global climate forcings, which
causes local precipitation extremes

7.  The types and extent of data requirement by
scientists and researchers
 Knowledge about new findings
 Identification of the priority area
 Level of Simplification permissible
 Requirement at user end for articulating and
negotiating with the scientists and the policy
makers
 Dealing with uncertainty
 Setting performance indicators in mutually
agreed manner

8.  A forum like India UK Water forum
 Global Climate Change Information Services or
SACOF
 A Climate Change Information System (CCIS)
 Continuous dialogue with executing
departments
 Direct interaction with the filed level workers
 Networking and informal discussion with the
scientists

9.  Distribution of water as resources
Agriculture, Industry, Domestic
 Irrigation and flood control
 Management of urban flooding
 Impact of sea level rises in coastal regions
 Conservation of water as resources
 Protection and Improvement of water quality

10. - Scale of 3 -5-10 years for policy makers
- Scale of six month to one year for
administrators
- Scale of 2-3 pentads for field level
execution
- Real time information

11. Zone wise – Basin,Coastal, Agroclimate
District wise
Block level
Ward wise

12.  Calibration
 Cross checking data of different agencies
 Identifying and analyzing anomalies
 Raising the concern in appropriate forum

13.  State Action Plan on Climate Change has been prepared
 Vulnerability assessment studies are completed/on for
Kolkata, coastal area and Darjeeling
 Project approved for district level downscaling
 Considering a project on Extended Weather Forecasting
 Expanding the river research institute
 Awarded State Specific Action Plan on Water Sector
 Sensor based online monitoring of water level at
different pumping stations

17. Thank you
Contact email id: dipanjanamaulik@gmail.com