Mohamed Firozali Amierali
Chief of Climatology at the Meteorological Service, Suriname
Title: National Data Centre Suriname
Biography
Biography: Mohamed Firozali Amierali
Abstract
The coastal zone of Suriname is 386km wide and is one of the most vulnerable coast in the Caribbean, due to Climate change and Sea level rising. Suriname is in the top ten countries according to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) - Guianas. Climate change has a major impact on our economic and social developments which result in influence of our national security and stability. Suriname coastline is very flat as a pancake and almost at sea level. The capital city Paramaribo with 80 percent of the population living nearby the coast is in danger. So we need not only to make preparation but to be prepared in the very near future. Package of measures has to be taken in account to prevent a dissaster. Since September 2012 we have a National Data Centre(NDC) and receiving seismology waveform data daily from the International Data Centre(IDC) in Vienna Austria. This data we use for monitoring and analyzing any events such as earthquakes that occures in our region. The coastal zone of Suriname is 386km wide and is one of the most vulnerable coast in the Caribbean, due to Climate change and Sea level rising. Our coastline is very flat as a pancake and the capital city Paramaribo with 90 percent of the population is very nearby the coast and almost at sea level. So we need to make preparation and be prepared for this in the very near future.