Bangkok--18 Apr--AIT
Mr. S. H. M. Fakhruddin, a doctoral student at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) has been granted the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Berkner Fellowship. His paper on “Medium Range Ensembles Flood Forecasts for Community Level Applications” is among the three selected as an Outstanding Student Paper.
Mr. Fakhruddin will present his paper at the 2013 AGU meeting of the Americas to be held at Cancun, Mexico from 14-17 May 2013. The paper is based on his Master’s research as a student of Water Engineering and Management, at AIT’s School of Engineering and Technology (SET).
Supervised by Prof. Mukand Singh Babel of AIT, and Dr. Akiyuki Kawasaki, visiting faculty at AIT of the University of Tokyo, the research created a model to increase lead-time for flood forecasting in Bangladesh. “Traditional models issue warnings only two days in advance, while our model sought to increase this to 10 days,” he says. The model is based on an ensemble of 51 datasets obtained from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), he added.
The Lloyd V Berkner Travel Fellowship is aimed at early career scientists and students to enable them to present their research at AGU meetings. This program serves as a memorial to former AGU President Lloyd V. Berkner.
More details about “AGU Meeting of the Americas” are available at this link: http://moa.agu.org/2013/
More details about the “Lloyd V Berkner Travel Fellowship” are available at this link
http://moa.agu.org/2013/students/berkner-travel-grant/
Photo caption: Mr. S. H. M. Fakhruddin