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WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION COMMON ALERTING PROTOCOL (CAP) IMPLEMENTATION WORKSHOP ROME, , 23-24 SEPTEMBER 2015

early warning system for italian civil protection

Angela Corina, Department of Civil Protection Why an early warning system?

Vesuvio eruption, 1906

Florence Flood , 1966 Reggio Calabria and Messina Vajont landslide, 1963 earthquake IX MCS, 1908 Mediterranean storms

Tuscany Liguria

140mm/1h 520mm/8h

25/10/2011

Genoa

120mm/1h 222mm/3h 400mm/2days

05/11/2011 Hydraulic and hydrogeological risk

CNR-IRPI CNR-IRPI

Location of 2533 sites affected by landslide events with Location of 1836 sites affected by floods events with direct direct consequences to the population. Period 650-2008 consequences to the population. Period 590-2008 Damage and costs

Economical losses1946-2010 52BL Eu infrastructure measures 300 ML Eu /year needed for 100 years The context

level of decentralization Early warning mechanisms can correspond authorities to very different institutional legislation types of risks arrangements, operational procedures, population’s degree of vulnerability technical and scientific activities and resources communication mechanisms depending on each country’s specificities Authorities and level of decentralization The Department of Civil Protection is today the coordination body of the Italian National System of Civil Protection. This System was established by a specific law (n. 225) in 1992 and involves many different Organisations:

- Public (Government, Ministries, Regions, Provinces, Municipalities, Operational Bodies etc.)

- Scientific/Academic (Universities, Research Institutes, etc.)

- Civil Society (Volunteers, private companies) Who intervenes in case of emergency?

•Italian Civil Protection distinguishes events (either natural or man made) based on impact they have:

•A – local level •B – provincial and regional level; •C – national and international level.

• A and B events can be managed through ordinary interventions implemented by bodies and administrations.

• C events must be managed making recourse to extraordinary means and powers. The Institutional National Fire‐fighters Corp Interior Police Prefectures

Structure Foreign Affairs

Environment ANPA

Health 118

Economy and Finance Financial Police AArmy PRESIDENCY Defence OF THE Ecnomic Development COUNCIL Department of Civil G.R.T.N. Protection OF MINISTERS Transport and Infrastructures Guard ANAS Cultural Heritage and Activities Highways company National railways Education, University and Research I.N.G.V. C.N.R. Communications National Institutes

Agricultural Policy and Forestry National Forest Service

Regions

Provinces Local Police

Municipalities The Operational Commitee

Monitoring Agency for road Highway Railway maintenance Trains Dams forecast team Alpine Rescue Agency Agency for Italian Corps Police Red flight control National Fire Cross Brigades National Research Council

Regions and Local Head Autonomies Department of Civil Protection Volunteers organisations Air Force National Institute Navy for geophysics State Corps Agency for and volcanology of Foresters National environment Electricity health protection management system Italian Television agencies Postmaster Telecommunications companies The operative room

• Monitoring and coordination centre • 24/7/365 • Modular structure

Permanent presence • Department of Civil Protection • Fire Brigade •Army • Police • Carabinieri •Red Cross • Finance Police • National Forest Corps The Technical component

Centre for Forecasting and Surveillance of Effects

24/7/365

Permanent presence • Meteo staff • Hydro staff ( engineers, geologists,…) • operators distributed network of Centres for Forecasting and Surveillance of Effects(CFSEs)

The Italian early warning system

21 Planned Regional CFSEs

Regional CFSEs fully operating Regional CFSEs partly operating

1 National CFSE

24/7/365 The Tasks established in the law 225/92

EWS Real time risk assessment The national early warning system legal framework Italian Prime Minister Directive (27 Feb. 2004):

“Operational Guidelines for the organizational and functional handling of the national and regional warning system on the hydro-geological and hydraulic risk for the purposes of the Civil Protection”. It defines: EWS is provided by DCP and Regions by the “Centri Funzionali” National Network, along with the “Expert centers” involved in hazard assessment and surveillance activities…. Regional Civil Protection Authorities decide and issue warnings

are clearly defined THE ROLES AND RESPONSABILITIES OF ALL EWS STAKEHOLDERS The italian early warning system

(DPCM 27/02/2004) identified the activation of the CFSE the hydrogeological, meteorological and hydraulic risks

•EachRegional Centre of Civil Protection has the responsability of meteo- hydrological alerts in its territory

• Coordination by the National Department of Civil Protection

• Expert centres (Universities, Agencies, research dept. • ex.CimaFoundation…) Centre for Technological and Scientific services development and transfer:

Science based approach Instruments Standard Operational procedure Centro Funzionale Centrale Regions

Weather surveillance N.F.C. R.F.C. Operative R.F.C. Not Operative

Availability of 00:00 (V.M) global models Regional Availability of synoptic + LAMI Availability of LAM/LAMI forecasts models (h 08:00) Models (h 8:00)

(C.F.C.) join Weather forecast Regional 12:00 synoptic Evaluation of evaluation of forecast ground impact ground impact

Regional evaluation of 14:00 Sent to ground impact Alerting of R.F.C. N.F.C. responsible On site surveillance & 15:00 Meteo monitoring surveillance daily bulletin Regional meteo warning join message National warning message join National crisis On site surveillance & Regional crisis 16:00 warning message monitoring warning message (Regions MIN) join Regional crisis warning message Delivery of impact-based forecasts and warnings Coordination and communication from national/regional level to local level

REAL TIME risk assessment

yellow orange red

Warning  activation of operative response in real time at different territorial Civil Protection plans levels Phase of Phase of Phase of attention prealarmp alarm Vertical communication and coordination fron national/regional level to local level

REAL time assessment Warning messages predefined general risk scenario

NO‐REAL time CIVIL PROTECTION assessment PLANS

Communication to the public Specific risk scenario and actions to mitigate risk A «stratified» warning message

3 (4) levels of criticity/severity (green,yellow,orange, red) 3 different predefined scenarios for the meteo/geo Statal/ category (thunderstorms, hydraulic, hydrogeo) Regional Date and hour warning begins/expires functional possibility of updates center Geographical Area: predefined alert zones (133) for hydrogeo risk, meteo zones (45) for meteo hazard

Regional Attivation phase civil protection authority Specific risk scenario description Response action municipality Scope:public

Some possible Cap implementation

• for international if supported by other institutions • To publish nationalCAP bullettin in Alert cap Message format (version to 1.2) fullfill the italian «open data» law requirements • To exchange alert informations components of the national civil protection service By RCPAs for warning messages By Municipalities for alert message to public The diffusion of a standard warning effectiveness by allowing a message to be disseminated over many different warning systems Specific area of application: with short or null lead time ( ex thunderstorms, tsunami urgency, high certainty (observed event) dewetra Dewetra web alert : real time sharing of warning evaluation and automatic message generation: possible client CAP Dewetra : real time risk assessment platform

System of synthesis and processing of information and different data, even from distant sources.

Web based Compliant with international standards Spatial,logical and temporal integration

STREAM FLOW FORECASTS

FLOOD WAVE MONITORING Dewetra installations

CROATIA ITALY

CHINA SERBIA

CARICOM ALBANIA

LEBANON GUYANA ECUADOR

BOLIVIA

INSTALLED through other project

Requested through WMO Early warning system key words

Instruments

IN-MHEWS people

procedure Eng. Angela Corina [email protected]

Italian Civil Protection Department Rome