The Project:
• Why SEA-BASINS
• Implementation
• Partner Network

NAGA
• Strategy
• SE Asia Models
• Informatics

Active Basins
• Mekong Basin
• Sub-basins

• Restricted Papers
• Restricted Data

Partner Network

A long-term goal of SEA-BASINS is to have the model run routinely by resource agencies across Southeast Asia (dealing with problems such as water resource management, inland and coastal water quality, public health, coastal living resource, coastal zone management, disaster warning, tourism and other recreational uses, and local administration). Before the model can be routinely used as a decision support tool, several steps must occur. There are both logistical and in some cases political issues that make a truly centralized modeling effort impractical. The team building the model must be those most knowledgeable in a particular region; no one project alone can obtain all the accurate data for model calibration and validation for all the basins in Southeast Asia. Potential users must be invested as stakeholders in the process as early as possible. The models must be carefully tested and verified. Different basins also have different characteristics and require different sets of calibrated coefficients and parameters.

In response, establishing a "Partner Network" has been a priority from the beginning of SEA-BASINS.

The role of partners is to:

1. Test run different versions of the model using data provided by SEA START RC as well as using their own data sources as appropriate

2. Calibrate the model for an appropriate coefficient for each basin

3. Verify the result of the model with actual observed data

4. Make technical feedback and comments to model developers and the regional data/information system manager (SEA START RC), such as those on general features of the model, additional or deletion of equations and modules, etc.

5. Identify new partners from government and non-government sectors as well as relevant research projects

6. Promote the model and project such as by making them more visible to potential users, produce user friendly manual and documents in local languages, conduct national training programs, etc.

7. Seek more funds for model development from local sources such as government and other donors

8. Identify and contact appropriate donors to support future implementation of model by users, especially those with limited resources

9. Support users in terms of model update and bug fixing, provide basic "template" data, coordinate for near-real time data transfer between SEA START RC and users

Initial technical support and advice from Partners who are familiar with local situations and conditions will be critical for an end user of the model to start up a routine modeling program. Once users are fully comfortable with the model, then they can be "independent". However, Partners and users may need to meet occasionally to evaluate and suggest improvements for the model and the data/information system

All users are expected to implement the model using their own funding. However, for some users with very limited resources some initial setup, such as hardware and software, and human capacity, may have to be provided by some donors. SEA START RC and our Partners will try as much as possible to provide linkages to appropriate donors.

Partners include:

Australia CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research Cambodia Chaktomuk Environment, Hydraulics and Morphology, Ministry of Public Work and Transport Working Group Basin Modeling & Knowledge Base in Cambodia National Mekong Committee , MRC China Yangtze River Water Resources Commission, Ministry of Water Resources, Nanjing Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources, Ministry of Water Resources State Oceanic Administration Indonesia Department of Mining, Institut Teknologi Bandung, R&D Centre for Geotechnology - LIPI Laos River Works Management Unit, Ministry of Communication Transport Post and Construction Malaysia Hydrology Division, Department of Irrigation and Drainage, Borneo Marine Research Institute Universiti, Regional Humid Tropics Hydrology and Water Resources Centre for Southeast Asia and the PacificDepartment of Irrigation and Drainage, Univerity of Science Malaysia. Penang ,Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering. University Kebangsaan Myanmar Dept. of Meteorology and Hydrology, Directorate of Water Resources and Improvement of River Systems Peru - c/o Southeast Asia START Regional Center, Chulaongkorn University Philippines National Institute of Geological Sciences, University of the Philippines-Diliman Thailand Office of Budget Programming and Project Planning, Royal Irrigation Department, Department of Energy Development and Promotion Hydrology Section, Department of Energy Development and Promotion, Environmental Science Graduate School, Chulalongkorn University Southeast Asia START Regional Center, Chulaongkorn University, IOC-WESTPAC USA Oceanography and Civil Engineering, University of Washington Vietnam Vietnam National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, Institute of Mechanics, Hydrological Division, Sub-Institute of Water Resources Planning , Inst. of Geography, National Center for Natural Science and Technology, Institute of Applied Mechanics

Linkages with Other SARCS Activities

• By becoming a Partner, Southeast Asia Land Use and Land Cover Change (SEA LUCC) could provide critical knowledge from their case study sites such as vegetation calibration coefficients, socioeconomic driving force, and time series data for test running the model
• SARCS-WOTRO-LOICZ (SWOL) case studies on responses of coastal zone to terrestrial inputs
• DARLAM Fine Scale Regional Climate Model will be utilized as a key climate scenario generator for Southeast Asia Region
• Southeast Asia DIS to provide access to regional datasets relevant to the model
• GEWEX Asian Monsoon Experiment