RIMES

Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa And Asia (RIMES):

• It is a 45-nation international organisation on disaster warning.
  
  
• Objective: To establish a regional early warning system for the generation and communication of early warning information of tsunami and hydro-meteorological hazards.
  
  
• Background: It was established and registered with the United Nations in
  
  
• Location: It operates from its regional early warning centre located at the campus of the Asian Institute of Technology in Pathumthani, Thailand.
  
  
• Governance: It’s council is composed of heads of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) and national scientific and technical agencies generating multi-hazard early warning information.
  
  

Findings of RIMES on Cyclone Titli:

• More than 200 years of cyclone track history in the Odisha coast reveals that the Titli cyclone is the rarest of rare in terms of its characteristics such as
  • recurvature after landfall and retaining its destructive potential after landfall and
    
    
  • recurvature away from the coastal areas for more than two days.
    
    
  
  
  
• No synthetic track projection captures the Titli type of cyclones.
  
  
• Earlier, India Meteorological Department had called the formation of Titli as a ‘rarest of rare’ occurrence. The severe cyclone had changed its path after landfall.