UAE and Pakistan’s national weather bureaus will collaborate to enhance seismology and meterology capabilities, following the launch of technical cooperation programme.
UAE and Pakistan’s national weather bureaus will collaborate to enhance seismology and meterology capabilities, following the launch of technical cooperation programme.
The UAE’s National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) and the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) will also work to improve seismic activity in the region, according to a statement issued by the NCM on Friday.
Cooperation will include marine meteorological services, hydrology and flood forecasting, seismology, and even scientific research to better monitor and understand seismic activity in the Arabian Sea and the Sea of Oman. Furthermore, the programme will involve the exchange of seismic data around the clock.
The agreement was signed on the sidelines of the WMO Regional Conference in the Regional Association II in Abu Dhabi by Dr. Abdullah Ahmed Al Mandoos, NCM director, and Mahr Sahibzad Khan, PMD director general and permanent representative of Pakistan with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
“The Technical Cooperation Programme will help the NCM and PMD better understand the potential dangers of seismic activity and tsunamis as part of our responsibility to monitor and assess seismic activity within the UAE.
Only by conducting cutting-edge research and encouraging collaborative efforts and knowledge transfers within the scientific community will we be able to develop systems and solutions that reduce the risk and damage caused by future seismic activity “According to Dr. Al Mandoos.
“We are thrilled to be working on this project with the NCM and its team. By strengthening our ties with the NCM, we are emphasising the importance of monitoring meterology capabilities and seismic activity, as well as integrating and analysing new data that could lead to future breakthroughs in these ground-breaking academic fields,” “Khan stated.
The new programme aims to integrate weather and seismic activity data as well as develop special capabilities for tsunami model research. This should allow for faster and more accurate forecasts of tsunamis propagating through the Oman Sea, which may then affect Pakistan’s coastal areas and the UAE’s northeast.
The collaborative efforts will also improve technical cooperation and expertise exchange by providing advanced forecast modelling software to the Tsunami Early Warning Centre (TEWC) that is specifically designed to support tsunami forecasting operations.