AP FRIEND Working Groups

Working Group 1: Establishment of Asian Pacific Water Archive
   The working group will coordinate the establishment of the Internet based Water Archive by:
   1. documenting the preferred standards and guidelines for the provision of data and other information to the Water Archive by participating countries,
   2. preparing guidelines for the operation of the Country Nodes to be established to make data available,
   3. assisting the Regional Center with the establishment of the Water Archive Central Node,
   4. working through the Regional Centre to assist countries to establish and operate the Country Nodes.

Working Group 2: Rainfall-Runoff Models
   This working group aims to develop rainfall runoff models that can be used in data scarce basins to improve the predictability of floods and to make it possible to assess the impacts of land use changes and climate variation on floods and low flows.

Working Group 3: Statistical and Stochastic Models
   The objectives of this Working Group are to compare regional characteristics of flow regimes through the assessment of long term changes and the discrimination of similar hydrologic zones and to develop statistical and stochastic models which can be used for flood and low flow prediction as well as hydrologic design in the region. From the comparative statistical and stochastic analyes, the characteristics of the hydrologic cycle in the region are also elucidated for the more effective development and management of hydrology, water resources and the environment.

Working Group 4: Frequency Analysis Models
   Working Group 4 will contribute to both of the two major activities of the AP FRIEND: establishment of Asian Pacific Water Archive and flood and low flow research. As the contribution to the Archive, the working group recommends the Regional Steering Committee (RSC) and the working group 1 include the extreme-value data. As a result of research undertaken by working group members extreme value data will be made available to the Water Archive for use by others.

Working Group 5: Human Adjustment Models
   This working group focus on the comparative analyses of human adjustment processes exercised in different countries and regions for the mitigation of flood and low flow damages. Human adjustment structures will be analyzed and compared for improved flood and low flow management. Possible outcomes will include:
 1) up-to-date damage potential estimates of floods and low flows,
 2) identification of natural and social background of recent increases in flood and low flow damages,
 3) potential damage increases from flood and low flows under increasing climatic variability,
 4) non-structural measures to mitigate flood and drought damages.
  Membership of Committees

TECHNICAL SUB-COMMITTEE

   Prof. Kuniyoshi Takeuchi (Japan)
   Prof. Soontak Lee (Republic of Korea)
   Mr. Trevor Daniell (Australia)
   Mr. Liu Heng (China)
   Mr. Joesron Loebis (Indonesia)
   Prof. Kaoru Takara (Japan)
   Mr. Liew Chin Loong (Malaysia)
   Dr. Tran Thuc (Vietnam)


WORKING GROUP COORDINATORS

   Working Group 1       Mohd Nor (Malaysia)                  jps33@pop.moa.my
                                     Ross James (Australia)                r.james@bom.gov.au
   Working Group 2       Kuniyoshi Takeuchi (Japan)          takeuchi@mail.yamanashi.ac.jp
   Working Group 3       Soontak Lee (Rep. of Korea)       leest@ynucc.yeungnam.ac.kr
   Working Group 4       Kaoru Takara (Japan)                  takara@rdp.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp
   Working Group 5       Kasem Chunkao (Thailand)          kasem@start.or.th
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   Catalogue of Rivers

      As a fore-running background activity of Asian Pacific FRIEND, Catalogue of Rivers for Southeast Asia and the Pacific has been published by the collaboration of all the member countries. The catalogue covers the information of rivers: Outline, Geological, Climatological, Hydrological, Water Resources, Socio-Cultural Information and References. Within the IHP-V(1996-2001) framework, it belongs to Project 6.4: Information exchange on regional hydrological processes research and experiences in water resources management, Theme 6: Humid tropics hydrology and water management.
   Implementation Projects

      The first phase of the Asia Pacific FRIEND focuses on the following two projects:

This project establishes and maintains a data archive which contains the daily river runoff data and other hydrological and water resources related information obtained in conjunction with

  1. Catalogue of Rivers for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, and
  2. Asian Pacific FRIEND research projects,

and analyses the statistical nature of the hydrological processes and water resources systems.

This project conducts a comparative research on patterns and processes of floods and lowflows under different climatic, geological and landuse conditions among the Asian Pacific FRIEND countries and produces:

  1. Source papers on particular basins, and
  2. Research reports on comparative hydrology and water resources on specific aspect of floods and lowflows
   Evaluation Criteria

      The success of Asian Pacific FRIEND will be measured by the extent to which the results of research are:

  1. used within the region to provide improved up to date training of hydrology and water resource practitioners,
  2. transferred to and used by hydrology and water resource practitioners to address regional issues, and
  3. appreciated by the global hydrological and water resources community as input from the regional findings and experiences.
  Objective

      The Asian Pacific FRIEND provides a framework within which research is carried out to improve the understanding of hydrological sciences and water resources management in the region through, taking an advantage of the multi-continental scale coverage of the member countries, comparative studies of the similarity and variability of the regional hydrological phenomena and water resources management experiences.

      The research will focus on providing solutions to issues relevant to countries in the region and cover areas such as:

  1. Better modelling of hydrologic processes and application of systems approach to provide improved regional hydrologic design and water resources management to meet the urgent needs of water and water control.
  2. The impact on catchment hydrology and water resources of natural and human induced changes in land use and land management practices.
  3. The impact of climate variability on water resource availability and management.
  4. The importance and effect of different spatial and temporal scales on hydrologic analyses used to address regional issues.
  5. The basic conditions to make the water related technology transfer and exchange possible.
  What is AP FRIEND?
   Catalogue of Rivers
   Implementation Projects
   Evaluation Criteria
  Objective
  What is AP FRIEND?

      The Asian Pacific FRIEND is an IHP regional project participated by thirteen countries from Southeast Asia and the Pacific, which include, as of January 1999, China, R Korea, Japan, Philippines, Vietnam, Lao, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand, and organized by the IHP Regional Steering Committee for Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Within the IHP-V(1996-2001) framework, it belongs to Project 1.1: Application of methods of hydrological analysis using regional data sets (Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data Sets/FRIEND), Theme 1: Global hydrological and geochemical processes.
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