A talk I held at Nordic adaptation 2016 (30.08.2016) about a Ministry of foreign affairs project we have in Bangladesh, and the first result: A report on the climate of Bangladesh.

1. Moving the Bangladesh
Meteorological Department from
climate data to climate information
Bazlur Rashid, Ayshia Mossamat Khatun, (BMD)
Hans Olav Hygen (MET Norway)

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Institutional support and capacity
building for mitigation of weather
and climate hazards in Bangladesh
1. Public Weather Services
2. Climate Services
1. Climate analyses
2. Empirical - statistical downscaling
3. Long term improvement
4. Project management
The 4th Nordic Conference Climate Change Adaptation

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Climate of Bangladesh
1. Seasons of Bangladesh
2. Weather observations in Bangladesh
3. Bangladesh climate normals 1981-2010
4. Frequency of common weather in Bangladesh
5. Wind pattern for different seasons in Bangladesh
6. Detected changes in Bangladesh climate
7. Conclusions
Aknowledgements
References
Appendix
The 4th Nordic Conference Climate Change Adaptation

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Frequency of common weather
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The way foreward
• Downscaling of seasonal forecasts
• Downscaling of climate projections
• Climatic trends
• Homogenisation
• Extend number of elements
• Gridding of climate data
• Verification of weather forecasts
• Visualisation
• … The 4th Nordic Conference Climate Change Adaptation

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