Teaching & tutorials

Learn the concepts and the pipelines

Training material for anticipatory-action practitioners, and technical walkthroughs for anyone building similar forecast/data systems.

Concept training

Impact-based forecasting fundamentals

IBF Foundations (Bengali)

Translates the WMO Warning Forecasting / Impact-Based Forecasting / Impact Forecasting (WF/IBF/IF) paradigm shift into precise Bengali terminology paired with English equivalents, including group exercises oriented to upazila-level anticipatory decision-making.

SlidesBengali
Technical tutorials

Building the pipelines yourself

Step-by-step walkthroughs of the systems behind Forecast-X and related work — written so you can adapt them to your own hazard context.

Automating BMD SYNOP data with Google Apps Script

Hourly fetch, zlib/pako decompression, and structured Google Sheets output — one tab per parameter, one row per station per date.

Pulling ERA5-Land climatology in Google Colab

CDS API acquisition, derived heat-stress variables, and atomic write patterns for long-running Colab sessions.

Designing a WMO 4×4 risk matrix for multi-hazard thresholds

How likelihood and impact combine into an operational threshold framework across 11 hazard types.

Video

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