The Taiwan Typhoon and Flood Research Institute (TTFRI) was a research institute which is part of the

National Applied Research Laboratories The National Applied Research Laboratories (NARLabs; ) is a research institution in Taiwan resulted from the combination of national laboratories into an independent nonprofit institute. It is located in Taipei. History NARLabs was establishe ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

. It was merged into the

National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction The National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR; ) is the agency under the Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan) serving as the technical adviser to the Executive Yuan on disaster prevention and reduction affairs. H ...

in 2018.

History

The Taiwan Typhoon and Flood Research Institute was inaugurated in 2011 in the city of

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. Lee Cheng-shang was the inaugural Director. TTFRI is a coordinator of research into quantitative precipitation forecasting. TTFRI has worked with the Central Weather Bureau to develop a radar assimilation system which has increased the accuracy of the six hour rainfall forecast by twenty percent. In 2018 TTFRI began a project to improve the flood management of Cayo District in

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in partnership with the Belizean Government which is one of Taiwan's few remaining official diplomatic allies.

Equipment

In 2015 TTFRI acquired a set of UAVs from Australia for use their typhoon research program. Early attempts to acquire UAVs in 2005 were scrapped due to stricter air traffic controls imposed as a result of global terrorism.

References

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