A Steep Climb to Cleaner Air in South Asia
NASA atmospheric scientists and the SERVIR program are working to help keep communities breathing easy in the Hindu Kush and Himalayan mountain ranges.
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NASA atmospheric scientists and the SERVIR program are working to help keep communities breathing easy in the Hindu Kush and Himalayan mountain ranges.
The Nepal DHM is the national agency responsible for monitoring and managing the hydrological resources of Nepal. This Use Case describes how they used the SERVIR Enhancing Flood Early Warning Services (EWS).
As part of this service, SERVIR HKH, with the technical support of Brigham Young University developed a streamflow prediction tool that incorporates all primary and secondary rivers in the HKH region
SERVIR-Himalaya hosted the first 2015 SERVIR Hub Exchange, 10-13 March 2015, in Kathmandu, Nepal, bringing together SERVIR team members from around the globe.
SERVIR-HKH has developed the Air Quality Explorer for the HKH using freely available satellite data and the Google Earth Engine platform. The application allows visualization of three atmospheric parameters — nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulphur dioxide (SO2), and Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) — for any chosen period and location.
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) has been implementing the SERVIR-HKH Initiative — one of five regional hubs of the SERVIR network — in its Regional Member Countries, prioritizing capacity building and science activities in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan.
Floods are a recurring event in the HKH region that often have disastrous consequences. To help better understand these events, SERVIR HKH developed the Flood Inundation Mapping Tool, a cloud-based system developed to map flood areas in Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and the northeast part of India.