Weather and Climate Early Warning System for Papua New Guinea

The project creates end-to-end EWS focused on reducing drought impacts, while at the same time leveraging and providing a foundation for EWS focused on other hazards, and specifically flooding. The project address improved weather observations, climate data management of historical data for the monitoring of drought, climate data rescue, state-of-the-art seasonal forecasting coupled with monitoring and advisories for drought, and a more efficient distribution of alerts and information suitable for decision making at national and local level.   

The focus is on building the capacity of the National Meteorological Service and strengthening its cooperation with key sectoral ministries, departments and other stakeholders working in the above areas to put in place complete systems that deliver warnings and relevant information to end-users. Enhancement of these basic capabilities is complemented with support for integration of early warnings into national processes. The project bring together technical expertise from cooperating institutions to ensure access to relevant data, products, tools, training, and equipment.  The selected sectors addressed by the project provide showcases for development of additional services subsequently. Several additional on-going or planned projects which the current project complements are identified below.