Provision of critical weather information services to prevent and curb drought-induced forest fires: BMKG (Indonesia)
Indonesia takes special precaution of wildfire risk in peatlands areas, and attempt to mitigate the risk by rewetting the peatlands by weather modification activities. The Agency for Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG) is working closely with partner authorities in this efforts by providing critical information such as cloud growth potential map from weather forecasts, and real time satellite and radar data analyses to determine flight sorties departure and pinpoint location of cloud cells to be seeded. For this tall order, we had made 16 flight sorties during the period of 13-31 May 2020 that associated with 138,1 mm of rainfall.
Indonesia takes special precaution of wildfire risk in peatlands areas, and attempt to mitigate the risk by rewetting the peatlands by weather modification activities.
The Agency for Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics (BMKG) is working closely with partner authorities in this efforts, especially with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, the Agency for Technology Assement and Development, as well as the Indonesian Army and the Local Governments of the respective susceptible region, by providing critical information such as cloud growth potential map from weather forecasts, and real time satellite and radar data analyses to determine flight sorties departure and pinpoint location of cloud cells to be seeded. For this tall order, we had made 16 flight sorties during the period of 13-31 May 2020 that associated with 138,1 mm of rainfall.
BMKG and partner agencies will continue to be vigilant in the efforts to prevent for the fire and smoke and to address other impacts caused by the drought condition.