1. National Implementation of
CSIS Core Fonctions
Tshencho Dorji
Sr. Hydromet Officer
National Center for Hydrology and Meteorology
Bhutan
WMO International Workshop on CSIS Operations & Coordination, Nanjing, China, March 2017

2. Current Status of Climate Services
At present the NCHM provides the following climate services:
1. Weather forecast information up to 3 days
General public –Weather Outlook
Agriculture & Disaster- Forecast extreme weather events
2. Seasonal Outlooks
General Public
Disaster, Agriculture, Hydro-power ,Health, Planning and Service Sectors
3. Quality controlled and Analysed climate data to different users
Numerous sectors: Example, Educational institutes, Agriculture, Hydro-power

3. Requirements in Climate Services
Capacity building and models required for Medium Range Forecasting and Extended Range Forecasting
Capacity building in climate modelling and climate projection
Continued support for National Climate Outlook Forums (NCOFs)
Capacity building in data assimilation

4. Data Requirements Global data: WMO lead centres, NOAA, TCC, etc.
Regional data: CORDEX, forecast products and data from RCCs,
National data: Climate data of Bhutan
Sector data: socio-economic related

5. Requirement of Global and Regional Products/Services
Global Centres : Easy Access to forecast information (weather & climate) and data – Daily, seasonal and decadal
Regional Centres: Climate Variability and Change, Proxy climate data, forecast information (weather and climate)

6. Institutional Capacity
NCHM was upgraded to an autonomous agency in September 2016:
Core mandates:
Provide quality, accurate, reliable, usable, location-specific and timely services to reduce risks and to optimize benefit in the following areas:
Create value and enhance societal benefits from hydro met resources for
sustainable development;
Protect life, livelihood and infrastructures from hydro met hazards
Safeguard the environment
Ensure continuity of hydro met monitoring and observations
Promote endogenous capacity building
Meet international commitments and contribute to international cooperation

7. Institutional Strengths :
Bestowed with more administrative powers in planning and decision making
In process of strengthening observational network and infrastructures
Improved manpower compared to previous years
Institutional Weakness:
Still new agency compared to other NHMS
Infrastructure and capacity building is donor dependent

8. Infrastructural Capacity
Climate data and Climate Monitoring:
Good number computing systems in place
Centralized database in the process of development
Good number of observational network (160 stations –including AWS and manual climate stations)
Climate Prediction and Climate Projection:
Lacks infrastructure and professional capacity

9. Staff Capacity At present NCHM has 152 staff :
Technicians (includes field observers)-113
Professionals-24
Administrative -15
World
Bhutan
Professional
45%
16%
Technician
74%
Administrative
10%
Education Level
High School
50%
80%
Bachelor’s Degree
30%
15%
Advanced Degree
20% 5%
Employees/1000 sq.km
1-20 4
Funding source
Government appropriations
25%
Commercial/cost recovery
14%
External project support 6%
75%
Source: ugyen 2016

10. General Expectations From CSIS
Climate Monitoring Aspects: Provision of information on global and regional climate monitoring useful improving climate monitoring aspects at national level
Climate Prediction Aspects: Provision of global and regional information and data; transfer of technology and knowledge
Climate Projection Aspects: Provision of global and regional information and data; transfer of technology and knowledge
User Engagement Aspects: Transfer of knowledge and skill at global and regional level with NHMS; Support to regional and national level user based climate forums

11. Climate Services Toolkit
Easy access to different data source and data analysis tools
Software tools/packages available will be helpful in analysis and generations of products/services
Reduces cost
Guidance materials and other documents provide useful information for creation and proper management climate products and services

12. Thank you!