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Capacity Building for Climate Prediction and Application in Sri Lanka and Outreach
From the IRI's Mission Statement
: The IRI work in Sri Lanka has focused on developing capacity to deliver climate services and to generate climate knowledge in a sustained manner. IRI's support for capacity building has included:
The provision of climate variability information
in Lanka was dominated by the international mass-media. This led to misintrepretations
during the 1997-99
ENSO episode in Sri Lanka of the actual state of knowledge regarding
El Nino and La Nina impacts. In particular, the media did not communicate
crucial nuances in seasonal or regional variations. In response to the IRI
work, the Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation instructed the formation
of a national steering committee to carry out a systematic evaluation of
seasonal climate forecasts and undertake its appropriate dissemination to
all users in January 2003. The IRI is now supporting the national steering committee on climate prediction
by providing climate information directly this committee and sustaining its
work on climate applications research in partnership with the Mahaweli Authority
and other agencies.
IRI's three-year long capacity building efforts in Sri Lanka have led to many rewards all around and broad support for the IRI's Mahaweli program. Contact for more information:
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