Seasonal Flood Forecasts and Warning Response Opportunities

Md. Rashed Chowdhury – currently an adjunct professor affiliated with the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment (SSBE) at Arizona State University (USA) — is the former Principal Research Scientist of the Pacific ENSO Applications Climate Center (PEAC) at the Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR) of the University of Hawaii. For the last 25 years, his activities focused on addressing water challenges surrounding emergency management and implementation activities related to climate variability and change, sea level rise, land-use planning and environmental resource management for the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-sensitive countries/islands in the Asia-Pacific region, including Bangladesh, the Maldives, Japan, Hawaii, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and American Samoa. He has been responsible for the translation on the probable impacts of various seasonal climate products through local and international activities, and in the process he is actively involved in the development of adaptation plans regarding climate hazards management.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSPreface: Why ENSO-based seasonal forecasts are important in Bangladesh Acknowledgements.- About the author.- Chapter 1: Introduction—Seasonal Flood Potential in Bangladesh.- Chapter 2: Basin-wide Hydro-Meteorological Variability and Opportunity for Seasonal.- Forecasts in Bangladesh.- Chapter 3: History of Flood Forecasts and Early Warning in Bangladesh.- Chapter 4: Overview of Weather, ENSO, and Climate Scale.- Chapter 5: The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Seasonal Flooding in Bangladesh.- Chapter 6: Seasonal Flood Potential in Bangladesh.- Chapter 7: Overview of Eastern, Mixed, and Central Pacific El Niño.- Chapter 8: Seasonal Sea Level Information and Flood Forecast Potential in Bangladesh.- Chapter 9: Consensus Seasonal Flood Forecasts and Warning Response in Bangladesh.- Chapter 10: ENSO Impacts, Applications, and Conclusions.