OREANDA-NEWS. April 7, 2011. UNDP project "Climate risk management in Kazakhstan” has transferred new equipment to the republican state-owned enterprise “Kazhydromet”. New equipment designed to model and forecast climate changes will empower climatologists to develop detailed models and scenarios of climate changes in Kazakhstan.

“With this equipment opportunities of meteorologists will expand significantly, and it will empower us anticipate dangerous weather events, decrease the risk of threat to livelihoods and economic damage”, noted “Kazhydromet” Deputy Director General Ardak Mausymbayev.

New equipment will allow to develop scenarios of expected climate changes with the maximum accuracy, to adapt the international forecasting standards for Kazakhstan, and design the risk maps for various sectors, such as: agriculture, meteorology, hydrology and others. New equipment includes multi-processor server and data storage facility, combined into a high-productive computer network and computing cluster.

"We can see a very serious position of Kazakhstan and partners on the issues of climate change and their willingness to partner on these questions, which leads to positive changes. New opportunities will strengthen the technical capacity of Kazakhstan in modeling and forecasting climate changes, as well as make the country more prepared to these changes",  says UNDP Deputy Resident Representative, Ekaterina Paniklova.

Kazakhstan is the country with a wide variety of climate and weather conditions, and such important sectors of economy as agriculture, energy, water resources, transportation are directly dependent from the climate forecasts. New equipment on modeling and forecasting will allow anticipating dangerous weather events as mudslides, hurricanes, floods and others. Compounded, this will make the country less dependent from unfavorable weather conditions, coordinator for UNDP project “Climate risk management in Kazakhstan” Zhanara Yessenova said.

The equipment was delivered by UNDP project “Climate-risk Management in Kazakhstan”, aiming to strengthen the technical capacity of Kazakhstan’s meteorological service in processing and presenting forecasts on climate changes.