Research on technology to forecast dry season flow to the border

This is a workshop program within the Basic Science Development Program in the fields of Chemistry, Life Sciences, Earth Sciences and Marine Sciences for the period 2017-2025, chaired by the University of Natural Sciences - VNU and chaired by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Tien Giang - Head of the Department of Water Resources Hydrology, Faculty of Meteorology, Hydrology and Oceanography.

Scientists and representatives of research units in the field of hydrometeorology attended the Workshop.

Attending the workshop were representatives of the Office of State-level key programs, Ministry of Science & Technology; Institute of Geography; Center for Water Resources Planning and Investigation, Ministry of Natural Resources & Environment; PECC1 Power Construction Consulting Joint Stock Company, Center for Hydrometeorology Network and many leading experts in the field of hydrometeorology and climate change.

On the side of the University of Natural Sciences, there was the participation of Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Quoc Binh, Vice Rector of the University; representatives of the Department of Hydrometeorology and Oceanography, Department of Geography; leaders of the Center for Environmental Hydrodynamics and the participation of many scientists, lecturers, and senior experts in the fields of Earth science and hydrometeorology.

Speaking at the opening of the workshop, Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Quoc Binh - Vice Rector of the University of Science (Vietnam National University, Hanoi) shared: “The issue of international river basins is attracting great attention from the scientific community due to its importance. However, research on this issue in other countries is still limited. In the context of this year's dry season (June), facing water shortages, forecasting the dry season flow to important lakes is a top concern. Up to now, the project is only in its initial stages, during which time, with the efforts of scientists, researchers as well as support units, the task has achieved many very important results.”

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Tran Quoc Binh - Vice Rector, University of Science delivered the opening speech of the conference

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Tran Quoc Binh especially emphasized the great significance of the contributions, additions and sharing at the workshop. On this occasion, Vice Principal Tran Quoc Binh expressed his thanks to the Ministry of Science and Technology for trusting and assigning the task to the University, and at the same time, he sent his deep thanks to the coordinating units and all the experts and leading scientists who attended and contributed their opinions to the workshop.

At the Workshop, experts and scientists presented the difficulties and challenges of changing the flow regime, the increasing trend of dry season flow and decreasing flood flow affecting the ecological environment and water use in the long term... In addition, technical reports on Building a multi-source, multi-time database for simulating and forecasting cross-border flows and reports on Building reservoir characteristic curves, reservoir monitoring technology when there is no ground data and related technical reports were also presented at the Workshop.

With the limitation of current measurement data, the topic emphasizes the need to collect complete data from many sources to have a comprehensive and accurate view, thereby assessing changes in upstream hydrological regime, and developing technological methods to forecast dry season flow.

The study is expected to provide quality data to support future negotiation agreements.

At the end of the reports, experts and activists in the field of hydrometeorology participating in the workshop had many discussions and positive comments on the results that the task force had obtained in the recent past.

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