The Climate Forecast Applications in Bangladesh (CFAB) project is developing a series of forecasting schemes for precipitation and flood warning for the monsoon Asia region. These schemes cover short (1-10 days), medium (15-30 days) and long term (1-6 months) time periods.

The schemes for the short- and long-term forecasts depend on the output of global forecast models. Medium range forecasting arises from the development of a new physically based Bayesian statistical method. All three schemes have been used with some success in the forecasting of the discharges from the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers into Bangladesh.

Coupled with detailed and existing forecast techniques used within Bangladesh, these discharge forecasts will prove extremely useful in agricultural planning, disaster mitigation and water resource management.