Strengthening Hydromet and Early Warning Services in Afghanistan: A Road Map

doi:10.1596/31059

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Strengthening Hydromet and Early Warning Services in Afghanistan: A Road Map

dc.contributor.author	World Bank Group
dc.date.accessioned	2018-12-20T21:20:13Z
dc.date.available	2018-12-20T21:20:13Z
dc.date.issued	2018-12-01
dc.description.abstract	Hydrological and meteorological (hydromet) data collection and analysis in Afghanistan started in the late 1940s and mid-1950s, respectively. The hydrometric network expanded rapidly in the 1960s and 1970s, reaching a peak of 150 in 1980, and the meteorological network had a similar trajectory. Two decades of war, however, brought instability and insecurity that reduced public resources, capacities, collaboration, and coordination. The institutional framework governing weather, climate and hydrological (hydromet) services as well as early warning (EW) and disaster risk management (DRM) services did not escape these setbacks. In 1996, Taliban forces sacked the meteorology office, ruining equipment and destroying over 100 years of weather records. Hydroelectric production nearly ceased as turbines were destroyed, floodgates blown open, and transmission lines brought down. The civil war and its aftermath led to the degradation of traditional observation networks, prevalence of outdated and inefficient technologies, and lack of modern instruments and information and communication technology (ICT). The absence of forecasts and weather information reversed years of development gains in farming and civil aviation operations. In 1998, an Ariana Afghan Airlines flight in route from Kandahar to Kabul in bad weather crashed into a mountaintop, killing 45 people. From 1998 to 2004, a major drought forced nearly 1 million Afghans from their farms and herds into metropolitan areas, impacting half the agriculture land, killing 3 million livestock, and seriously depleting groundwater resources in Kabul and the Kabul Water Basin.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/976021545165642530/Strengthening-Hydromet-and-Early-Warning-Services-in-Afghanistan-A-Road-Map
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/31059
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/31059
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	WEATHER FORECASTING
dc.subject	METEOROLOGICAL WARNING
dc.subject	EARLY WARNING SYSTEM
dc.subject	HYDROLOGY
dc.subject	NATURAL DISASTERS
dc.subject	DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT
dc.subject	CLIMATE RISK
dc.subject	STAKEHOLDER INTERESTS
dc.subject	DATA MANAGEMENT
dc.subject	MODELING
dc.subject	CAPACITY BUILDING
dc.title	Strengthening Hydromet and Early Warning Services in Afghanistan	en
dc.title.subtitle	A Road Map	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
dc.type	Document de travail	fr
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	Strengthening Hydromet and Early Warning Services in Afghanistan
okr.date.disclosure	2018-12-18
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Working Paper
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/976021545165642530/Strengthening-Hydromet-and-Early-Warning-Services-in-Afghanistan-A-Road-Map
okr.guid	976021545165642530
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/31059
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum	090224b0867b931f_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	30707102
okr.identifier.report	133069
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okr.language.supported	en
okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/976021545165642530/pdf/133069-WP-P168141-PUBLIC-44684-Roadmap-Afghanistan-Report-Dec17-Digital.pdf	en
okr.region.administrative	South Asia
okr.region.country	Afghanistan
okr.topic	Science and Technology Development::Climate and Meteorology
okr.topic	Environment::Climate Change Impacts
okr.topic	Environment::Natural Disasters
okr.topic	Water Resources::Drought Management
okr.topic	Water Resources::Flood Control
okr.unit	DRM/Climate SAR (GSU18)