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This report provides an overview of climate and hazardous conditions in Azerbaijan and highlights the structure and opportunities of Azerbaijan's National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS) in forecasting natural disasters.
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Second Meeting of the ECO Heads of Meteorological Organizations National Report of Azerbaijan NMHS Sahib Khalilov S_khalilov@yahoo.com Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan National Hydrometeorological Department October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
Content • About Climate and Hazardous in Azerbaijan • Structure and opportunities of Azerbaijan NMHS in context to forecast Natural Disasters October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
Climate and Hazardous in Azerbaijan October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
Floods, mad floods • Wind storms, high waves • Hail • Showers • Heat waves • Cold waves • Droughts • Oscillation of the Caspian sea level October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
Strong wind October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
Strong wind October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
Hail October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
FloodMay-July, 2003 October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
4 May 2006 October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
4 May 2006 October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
Floods in 2010 October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
Floods 2010 Flooded: 20 000 homes in 40 regions From these fully destroyed: 300 homes Partly destroyed: 2000 homes Flooded: 80 000 ha agriculture plantations Estimated losses: 400 mln USD October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
Floods 2010 • Increasing of Caspian Sea level up 2.4m • Decreasing of transportation ability of Kura river in downstream area • The huge amount of winter and spring precipitations (about 160% above normal) October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
Structure and opportunities of Azerbaijan NMHS in context to forecast Natural Disasters October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
AZHYDROMET October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
Main Duties • Observations • Forecasting • Hydrometeorological services • Climate • National Water Cadastre • Monitoring • Researches • International cooperation October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
Total staff - 1687 October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
Observation network • Meteorological stations - 82 • Radiosound Station - 1 • Meteorological Radars - 2 • Agrometeorological posts -10 • Meteorological posts - 25 • Marine posts - 9 • Hydrological posts - 113 • Laboratories - 6 October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
Meteorological observations October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
MS Qabala October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
HMS Pirallahı October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
HMS Shamkir October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
HMS Neftchala (Mouth of Kura river ) October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
Automatic Water Level Station on r. Kurmukchay (Ilisu) October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
Automatic Meteorological Station in Pirallahi October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
AWOS in Yevlakh October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
Radiosounding October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
Radiosound Station October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey
Meteorological Radars October 18-19, 2010, Antalya, Turkey