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Improving Flood Forecasting in International River Basins

Publication Date January 31, 2006
Author Hossain, F.Katiyar, N.
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Disaster Management Theme -
Disaster Type Flood
Document Type Research Paper
Languange English
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In flood-prone international river basins (IRBs), many riparian nations that are located close to a basin's outlet face a major problem in effectively forecasting flooding because they are unable to assimilate in situ rainfall data in real time across geopolitical boundaries. NASA's proposed Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, which is expected to begin in 2010, will comprise high-resolution passive microwave (PM) sensors (at resolution -3-6 hours, 10 x 10 square kilometers) that may provide new opportunities to improve flood forecasting in these river basins.
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