1. Proposed Climate Services for Implementation of CSIS
TANZANIA
Hellen Msemo
Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA)
WMO International Workshop on CSIS Operations & Coordination, Nanjing, China, March 2017

2. Sector to be served: DRR
Climate Services- NMHS
Flood/drought forecasting
Impact based forecast
Inundation maps- flood
Risk map
EWS in place
Summary statements for policy markers

3. Sector to be served: DRR
Potential Partners in SD
PM-DMD
Ministry of Water
River Basin Authorities
Ministry responsible for Land
Ardhi University
Ministry of Agriculture –Food security department
National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA)
FewsNet
Red Cross-Tanzania
UNDP, WB, FAO, WFP

4. Sector to be served: DRR
RCC/GPC- Requirements
Data
Rainfall (historical + current) –daily – ground and automatic station
Satellite –TAMSAT data
Radar RF estimate
Prediction:
Seasonal forecast
Weekly- Forecast
Daily Weather Forecast
Monitoring / analysis
Extreme – climatology
Evolution to present time

5. Requirements cont.…
Projections: High resolution statistical downscaling products
RCC/ GPC
Capacity building in impact based flood and drought forecasting
Capacity building in Hydro-meteorology and drought
Inundation map
Flood forecast models- Tools (software)
Drought forecast and monitoring tools
Other sources of RF estimates
Development of Thresholds (flood and drought)
Develop strategy for policy briefing (Summary for policy markers)
Copenicus (monitoring, forecast and projection products)

6. Requirements for CST
Impact based forecasting tools (Drought and flood)
Drought and flood monitoring tools
High resolution climate change projection tools

7. Indicative Action Plan
S/N
Climate Services
Timeline (12month)
comments 1
Consultations within TMA
2 weeks
TMA 2
Develop a concept note for climate services for DRR
TMA- Task Team 3
Develop a work plan (what, who..) 4
Implementation process 5
Review of concept note, work plan and implementation details (with partners)
1 month
TMA, Users, WMO, RCC- ACMAD, GPC 6
Submission to WMO
3 month

8. Thank you
Merci