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EFAS Bimonthly Bulletin Oct-Nov 2012 V1.Docx European Flood Awareness System EFAS Bulletin October – November 2017 Issue 2017(6) EUROPEAN FLOOD AWARENESS SYSTEM: Bimonthly Bulletin – Issue 2017(6) NEWS Upcoming events These new layers are designed to give an overview of The 13th EFAS annual meeting will take place in Norr- whether river flow is likely to be unusually high or low köping, Sweden, 13-14 March 2018. The focus will be over the next four months, for the global river network. partner networking and sharing experiences. To regis- For more information and to view the forecasts, visit ter, please follow the link below and fill in the www.globalfloods.eu. registration form (one entry per registrant): https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/W87RNFW Meetings The registration is open until 12 February 2017. For more information, please visit the EFAS web portal or 32nd meeting of the Flood Protection Expert Group of contact the EFAS Dissemination Centre via the ICPDR, 10 October, Brussels, Belgium [email protected]. We look forward to seeing you there! The latest developments for EFAS, relevant for the Danube river basin countries were presented. This in- User survey and first demonstration of new EFAS-IS cluded (1) the seasonal flood outlook, (2) the rapid The development of the new EFAS web interface is ad- flood risk assessment and its link to the pre-tasking of vancing, and we now invite all interested to access the satellite images of the Copernicus EMS – rapid map- new web site and provide feedback. It is still under de- ping, (3) the incorporation of radar based flash flood velopment and not all features are available or monitoring and nowcasting into the EFAS flash flood in- finalised. However, it is important that users can influ- formation, (4) the foreseen release of the new ence the development in the process. On calibration and (5) the work ongoing to modernize the https://www.efas.eu/home you can find information EFAS web interface and the EFAS data services. on how to access the web site, a link to the online sur- vey and a tutorial video to give you an overview of the 16th Copernicus User Forum, 13 October, Brussels, project and the platform. The survey will be open until Belgium 12 January 2018. The Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS) was presented in detail to the Member States New developments representatives during the 16th Copernicus User Fo- rum in Brussels. All current EMS components, meaning GloFAS seasonal outlook floods (EFAS & GloFAS), forest fires (EFFIS & GWIS) and On 10 November 2017, the new GloFAS seasonal out- mapping (rapid as well as risk & recovery mapping) as look was released. This is the world's first operational well as the future drought component (EDO) presented global scale seasonal river flow forecast, and has been their relevant news, developments and user experi- developed in collaboration with the University of Read- ences of the past year. Examples of the past summer ing and ECMWF. The forecasts are displayed as three (fires, hurricanes, floods) presented by users (Federal new “Seasonal Outlook” layers in the GloFAS user in- Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance, Ger- terface and are updated once per month, using the many; Office of Public Works, Ireland; Emergency latest ECMWF seasonal forecasting system, SEAS5. Response Coordination Centre, DG ECHO) demon- strated the relevance of the service for users who are directly and actively using the various service compo- nents. 22nd Working Group Floods meeting and the related workshop on “Risk indicators and assessment”, 18-19 October, Tallinn, Estonia The purpose of the Working Group on Floods (WG-F) is to provide a forum for support for the implementation of the Floods Directive. During the 22nd Working Group Floods meeting a presentation was given outlin- Figure 1. Screenshot of the GloFAS seasonal forecasts. ing relevant news and developments regarding flood related work done at the JRC. This included also an 2 EUROPEAN FLOOD AWARENESS SYSTEM: Bimonthly Bulletin – Issue 2017(6) overview of recent new developments under Coperni- the current status of the EUMETNET data license cus EMS EFAS. agreement with the Copernicus services was pre- sented. This data license agreement will facilitate FATHUM meeting, 16-17 November, Ispra, Italy greatly the access to hydro-meteorological data for all FATHUM meaning “Forecasts for AnTicipatory HUMan- Copernicus services and will therefore further improve itarian action” is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary the work performed by the Copernicus EMS Meteoro- project led by the University of Reading, UK. The pro- logical and Hydrological Data Collection Centers. ject aims at linking together research on forecast predictability and skill, complex drivers of risk, multi- New partners actor perspectives on successful implementation and financing mechanisms to catalyse and facilitate the We gladly welcome the Swiss Federal Office for the En- scale-up of Forecast-based Financing (FbF) for effec- vironment as a new EFAS partner and the Centre for tive, appropriate and impactful action before a Coordination of Critical Infrastructure Protection from disaster. The meeting between the JRC and FATHUM Ministry of Internal Affairs in Romania as a new EFAS project leads aimed at sharing current research results third party partner. and future planning with the intention to streamline efforts done under GloFAS with the FATHUM project. RESULTS Copernicus cross service meeting between Emergency Summary of EFAS Flood and Flash Flood Notifications Management Service (EMS) and the Climate Change Service (C3S), 22 November, Reading, United King- The 15 formal and 12 informal EFAS flood notifications dom issued in October-November 2017 are summarised in The EMS runs various mapping and early warning ser- Table 1. The locations of all notifications are shown in vices to provide relevant users with a large selection of Figure 23 and Figure 25 in the appendix. high quality products to provide support during all phases of the emergency management worldwide. 77 Flash flood notifications, summarised in Table 2, C3S1 is Copernicus Climate Change Service aiming at were issued from October to November 2017. The lo- the development/collection of authoritative, quality- cations are shown in Figure 24 and Figure 26 in the assured information about the past, current and future appendix. states of the climate in Europe and worldwide. C3S builds a range of sectorial applications that aim at Meteorological Situation providing information that will help societal and busi- ness sectors improve decision-making and planning by EFAS Meteorological Data Collection Centre regarding climate mitigation and adaptation. The meeting between the two services aimed at sharing Meteorological situation for October 2017 the current state of the services and to identify areas In the beginning of October, a high-pressure system lo- of potential collaboration. This includes, for example, cated over Scandinavia was replaced by a low-pressure the accessibility of archived EFAS simulations through system, which was moving slowly east and strengthen- the Climate Data Store or synergies in the collection ing. High-pressure dominated the weather conditions and gridding of historic meteorological observations. in the rest of Europe. A very strong low-pressure sys- tem localized over Iceland and extending to 3rd Copernicus in situ data coordination workshop 15 northwestern Europe led to heavy precipitation in November 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark northern England causing floods in parts of the county The Copernicus In Situ Component2 maps the land- of Cumbria, UK between 11 and 12 October. In some scape of in situ data availability, identifies data access areas, up to 211 mm were recorded in 24 hours. gaps or bottlenecks, supports the provision of crosscut- ting data and manages partnerships with data In mid-October the situation did not change; on the providers to improve access and use conditions. During one hand high-pressure systems dominated central Eu- the 3rd Copernicus in situ data coordination workshop rope, on the other hand the weakened ex-hurricane 1 https://climate.copernicus.eu/ 2 https://insitu.copernicus.eu/ 3 EUROPEAN FLOOD AWARENESS SYSTEM: Bimonthly Bulletin – Issue 2017(6) Ophelia brought 40 m/s winds, high waves and storm strong winds, especially in Greece. The most severely surges to parts of Ireland and the UK on 16 October. affected locations were the Greek islands Corfu and Ig- Strong winds caused high seas lead to localized coastal oumenitsa, where in some areas a precipitation total flooding in parts of Ireland. Severe floods in Cádiz and of more than 100 mm in 24 hours was recorded, result- Málaga province, Andalusia, occurred because of the ing in one fatality. Furthermore, the high precipitation low-pressure moving towards Spain, which caused tor- amounts led to flooding in areas of West Attica Region rential, highly localized rainfall with up to 112 mm in Greece on 15 November, which damaged in total measured in 24 hours on 18 October. The high precipi- 955 buildings and 23 humans lost their lives. This event tation sums also led to rock fall in the western part of was considered as one of the worst in the Greek his- the province Málaga. Followed by the event of ex-hur- tory. For more detail on the event, see the case study ricane Ophelia in mid-October, storm Brian brought presented in this bulletin. In contrast, central Europe strong winds, high waves and rain to parts of Ireland was mostly dominated by high-pressure systems in the and the UK on 21 October. Some minor flooding was mid of this month. reported in several cities in Ireland and parts of north- ern England. Capel Curig in Conwy County, North Due to a very strong low-pressure system, a storm Wales, recorded the highest rainfall in the country with caused major flooding in parts of the UK and Ireland 48.4 mm between 20 and 21 October.
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