Hydrological Data Audit

Background

Myanmar’s Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH) and Hydro-Informatics Centre (HIC) identified a need to undertake a comprehensive review of available hydrometric and meteorological data to help inform evidence-based decision-making in the Ayeyarwady Basin.

Activities

AWP Partners ALS Hydrographics, Alluvium and Hydronumerics consolidated and quality-checked all hydrological, meteorological, water quality and sediment data available for the basin and developed a hydrological database of more than 1,000 quality-assured datasets for installation within the HIC.

These datasets were a key input into the development of an eWater Source river system model, and have been critical inputs to a number of other SOBA activities.

The data audit team also trained HIC and DMH staff in data assessment and quality assurance, geomorphology analysis techniques, ADCP gauging and rating table reviews.

Framework for establishing environmental flows in the Ayeyarwady

The Australian Water Partnership (AWP) is supporting an Environmental Flows (e-flows) project in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady River Basin (ARB), with the objective of developing an e-flows policy framework for its adoption. There are many flows-related challenges in the ARB, including the need to balance different elements of river development and regulation to control flooding, to provide […]

Data audit and capacity building in Myanmar

Another AWP project being conducted in Myanmar has been completed. ALS Hydrographics, Alluvium and Hydronumerics recently concluded a project on Hydrological data audit and capacity building in data management. A database of more than 1,000 quality assured hydrological time series datasets for the Ayeyarwady Basin was compiled and installed within the Hydro-Informatics Centre (HIC). Datasets […]

Program Lead

Ecowise Australia
Scott Walker, Training and Business Development Officer

REGION

South-East Asia

COUNTRY

Myanmar

ORIGIN OF DEMAND

Government of Myanmar

PARENT PROJECT

Ayeyarwady Integrated River Basin Management

RELATED ACTIVITIES

STATUS

Complete (Oct 2016 – Apr 2017)

INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS

AUSTRALIAN PARTNERS

TOPICS