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LIST OF TABLES

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ANNEXURE

Comments & Responses


(Comments and responses
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1. Dr. Ainun Nishat, Vice Chancellor, BRAC University


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Comments

Responses

1.

The map needed to be produced in Bangla for community.

It is a very good suggeson and essenal to prepare it. Considerable


numbers of maps were produced for ood inundaon, storm surge
inundaon and salinity distribuon in English and it took quite long
me to produce all of those maps. It will take almost the same me to
produce all of the maps in Bangla. CDMP can take over the task to
produce these maps in Bangla.

2.

The maps produced need to be validated in eld with community.

Agreed and already validated through a number of eld visits.

3.

Explanaon of using specic models should be presented.

Explained in the previous secon.

4.

Literature review of related works need to be included.

Agreed.

5.

Any available informaon on SLR in Bangladesh needs to be

Agreed.

included.
6.

Comparison of model outputs with some earlier works.

It has done in the KJDRP area.

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Such consultaon workshop should be organized at the beginning

Agreed.

of the study as well.


8.

Menon if ood embankments are considered or not in

Flood embankment is considered.

predicng ood inundaon maps.


9.

Raonale of selecng study areas for ood inundaon should be


explained.

Agreed.

10.

The study would serve as baseline for any future studies.

Agreed.

11.

Should produce global level publicaon based on the study

Agreed.

ndings.

2. Tarik-ul Islam, Assistant Country Director, UNDP


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Responses

Comments

1.

Share the full report with the stakeholders, rather than the
summary.

Agreed.

2.

The study is strategically important for the policy makers, planning


people as well useful for the community.

Agreed.

3.

Too many maps will confuse community, provide them with the
important one (i.e., maximum risk level); translate the maps in
Bangla.

Agreed.

4.

Explain the reason behind selecng the ood-prone districts.

The districts for ood mapping have been selected in


consultaon with ocials of CDMP. The districts other than
ood-prone are not likely to be aected by high ood inundaon
in the changing climate.

5.

Need to be careful about predicons based on the IPCC, they


might lead to expensive development.

It is important to have local projecon and to invesgate risk to


moderate and high emission scenarios.

6.

Need claricaon on selecon of models, provide comparison


with other available ones.

These models have been tested in the rivers and Bay of Bengal for
the last twenty years and applied in many projects.

7.

The reports lack long-term strategy (such as update


frequency).

The TOR does not spulate to do the long-term strategy.

3. Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Project Director, CDSP and Superintending Engineer, BWDB
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Comments

Responses

1.

Value for 2080?

10% wind speed is selected for the year 2050. According to the
predicon of IPCC 10% and 20% increase of wind speed may occur
due to increase of 20C and 40C temperature. In this study 20C
increase of temperature was elected for the year 2050. The value of
percentage increase.

2.

Is it possible to use trend of wind speed increase using our cyclone

Cyclone is a discrete event and it is dicult to go for any frequency


analysis with this kind of discrete data. Even if we nd the increase
of wind speed but we cant extrapolate it for 2050 since future
driving forces and temperature will be dierent. That is why
predicons from IPCC is considered.

data instead of IPCC.

3.

The coastal area is protected with polders, so inundaon will be


aer overtopping or by breach of embankment.

Coastal polders have already been incorporated in the costal model


but breach of embankment was not incorporated in the model due
to the limitaon of model.

4.

Incremental area of salinity need to be elaborated.

Agreed.

5.

The user of the nding will be all sectors rather than re-design of
embankment as stated in the report.

Agreed.

6.

Need to prepare a naonal baseline with downscaling of IPCC

Agreed.

predicons.

4. Md. Sabbir Mostafa Khan, Professor, Department of Water Resources Engineering, BUET
Sl No.

Comments

Responses

1.

Could have a note on CRA in the report.

2.

In working with synthec cyclone model, high de - low de need
to be considered with care.

Agreed both low de and high de were considered


in the study.

3.

Use of storm surge inundaon would be beer instead of storm

Agreed.

surge height.
4.

Cauon should be made in considering return period of cyclone.

Agreed. Inundaon risk map have been prepared and no stascal


analysis was carried out.

5.

Eect of El-Nino and La-Nina was menoned in the report.

We are in agreement to invesgate this issue and in future


study needs to be designed on this basis...

6.

The informaon in table at page 16 need to be checked.

7.

Use of representave year (page 52) should be re-considered.

Checked and corrected.


It is not a representave year, rather a ood event
with a frequency of occurance.

5. Mr. Saiful Alam, Principal Scientic Officer Water Resources, WARPO


Sl No.

Responses

Comments

1.

Some of the data used in the report are not updated.

Secondary data was used for all kind of analysis under this study and
recent hydrometric, salinity and ow data were used, but some
cross-secon are few years old and recent data are not available.

2.

The selecon of base year of 5, 10, 20 and 50 years return period as


agreed in the ToR was not followed; instead only 10 and 20 years
return period was considered, need raonale.

The ood events and return period have been selected in


consultaon with the ocials of CDMP.

3.

No calibraon and validaon of basin model, surge, salinity model


and hydrodynamic model of other regions has been incorporated in
the report.

All the models were calibrated and validated for several years in
Instute of Water Modelling. Some sample plots have been
incorporated in the report.

4.

Presentaon of the maps could be more explicable with beer color


scheme.

Agreed.

6. Open discussion
Sl No.

Responses

Comments

1.

Duraon of inundaon should be provided.

Agreed and incorporated.

2.

The study ndings need to be made accessible to all stakeholders.

Agreed.

3.

Only surface water salinity map is developed, no map for ground


water and soil salinity.

There was no provision for ground water salinity and soil salinity in
the Terms of Reference, but these can be done considering the
ground water salinity and soil salinity through further study.

4.

The maps need to be made user-friendly, useable by local


community.

Agreed.

5.

Need study on impact of surface water salinity on soil salinity.

It is an excellent suggeson and needs urgent aenon of CDMP.

6.

Salinity data should be of mouza-level rather than union-level.

We are providing in UZ.

7.

Compare the maps prepared by model with remote sensing maps.

This is no doubt an excellent validaon. Calibraon also made


using satellite images on ood extent.

8.

Development of models based on extreme condions may lead to


excessive scenario with higher development cost, use of average
condion along with extreme one should be used.

Agreed.

6. Open discussion
Sl No.

Comments

9.

The maps could be used for awareness purpose in the community


level.

Responses

10.

Evaporaon, sunshine data should be considered for salinity model.

Evaporaon data was already used in the models. Evaporaon has


eect on water salinity, but there is no direct formulaon to assess
the eect of sunshine on water quality.

11.

Use of higher resoluon model would produce beer result.

Agreed but for union-level output exisng grid size is OK.

12.

There is need for guideline for interpretaon of the maps.

Agreed.

13.

The study should contain limitaons of predicon.

Agreed and incorporated the methodology of interpolaon.

14.

The ndings of the study need wider disseminaon.

Agreed.

15.

There is need for naonal Sea Level Rise data for beer predicon of
future inundaon.

Agreed.

16.

It would be beer if we have seasonal salinity scenarios for each


union.

We have given monthly variaon of salinity for each upazila from


February to May. However, it will be very useful if unionwise
seasonal salinity can be prepared, which may be done in future.

17.

Salinity situaon of the Sunderbans should be highlighted.

Agreed.

18.

Stakeholders consultaons during the study period might be helpful


in such studies.

Agreed and have already done.

19.

Feedback and regular update of the results of this study should


connue.

Agreed.

20.

The presentaons of the maps need to be more user-friendly.

Agreed.

21.

Limitaons and assumpons could be embedded in the maps.

These limitaons are given in the report.

22.

There is a demand for producing the maps in an ATLAS format.

This is a very good suggeson. CDMP can take over it in


future studies.

Agreed.

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