Conducting Kosi River Flood Forecasting and Early Warning System (Package 2), (Emergency Flood Damaged Rehabilitation Project (EFDRP), Part E Institutional Strengthening of DWIDP for Disaster Risk Reduction)

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Assignment Description

The main activities carried out by consultant are as follows: • Review the reports, literatures and publications on flood risk study and identify with the available literature the endangered settlements, towns, agricultural infrastructure and roads / bridges to focus flood warnings to specific locations. • Prepare an inventory of existing hydrological and meteorological stations on the area • Evaluate the adequacy of existing network for flood early warning and propose revised network • Visit all hydrological and meteorological stations including snow and glacier monitoring stations on the area • Prepare an inventory of equipment installed at each station • Assess the condition of equipment and upgrading required for telemetry • Assess the availability of means of communication (PSTN, CDMA, GSM) • Assess the availability of power supply • Select and recommend the stations for telemetry considering accessibility of station, availability of communication, necessity for flood forecasting, physiographic heterogeneity etc • Design and recommend the type of sensors, data logger and communication system at each selected station • Prepare technical specification of recommended system • Analyze the most recent information and recommend suitable model for quantitative precipitation forecast • Review the reports, literatures and publications on numerical weather prediction models and flood forecasting models and recommend a suitable model for Koshi Basin • Review the reports, literatures and publications on early warning mechanism and recommend an effective and efficient early warning mechanism for Koshi Basin • Prepare cost estimate of the system • Prepare and submit a report comprising all above mentioned things.