Implemented by the European Commission as part of the Copernicus Programme
Almost 200 participants gathered online to participate in the 3rd CEMS Global Flood Forecasting and Monitoring Meeting that was held on 5 and 6 March 2024.
The event featured presentations about recent developments to CEMS GloFAS and GFM products and services. Furthermore, the annual meeting included three keynotes. Two keynotes, "Africa Multi-Hazard Early Warning and Early Action System" and "Use of GloFAS products for food security assessment", focused on the potential that GloFAS and GFM products have in large scale projects. The third keynote, "Water depth estimate and flood extent enhancement using GFM", presented a further development of the flood extent product derived within GFM.
As in the previous meetings, there was also a broad spectrum of user applications presented in ignite talks and during the poster session. These contributions are inspiring for both other users and the developers of the service.
All the presentations and posters are available for download from this page.
Being a global event, the GloFAS and GFM annual meeting could gather participants from all over the world to present and discuss recent advancements and findings within the peer-group of GloFAS and GFM users.
The figure below illustrates the countries from which participants have joined over the two days of the meeting: indeed a global community! (Indicatively, the darker the color, the larger the number of participants; actual numbers are omitted to avoid double-counting participants that joined on both days).
The organizers always try to even incorporate interactive features in this online event to make it more than just a webinar. Apart from a question and answer functionality that was actively used throughout the whole meeting, both days were concluded in a more casual session in Gather.Town — a highly interactive space in which the participants were able to browse through posters about GloFAS and GFM applications, meet the presenters of ignite and keynote talks, meet members of CEMS GloFAS and CEMS GFM, and freely interact with other participants. The screenshot below shall give an impression that it actually works!
Day 1: 5 March 2024
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Presenter |
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13:00 – 13:05 |
Opening and welcome |
Peter Salamon (EC JRC) |
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13:05 – 13:20 |
Stefania Grimaldi (EC JRC) |
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13:20 – 13:40 |
Christel Prudhomme (CEMS COMP/ECMWF) |
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13:40 – 13:55 |
Tobias Stachl (CEMS GFM/EODC) |
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13:55 – 14:15 |
Tobias Stachl (CEMS GFM/EODC) |
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14:15 – 14:30 |
BREAK |
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14:30 – 15:00 |
Use cases and applications (IGNITE talks) 1. An application of GloFAS to support disaster risk financing through Flood Foresight 2. GloFAS and GFM data usage in the context of the Horizon Europe project CENTAUR 4. A Comparison of Sentinel-1 Approaches to Map the May-June 2022 Floods in Sylhet, Bangladesh |
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15:00 – 15:10 |
Preview of day 2 |
Peter Salamon (EC JRC) |
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15:10 – 15:20 |
Presentation of Gather.Town activities and transfer to Gather.Town |
Karen O’Regan (CEMS COMP/ECMWF) |
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15:20 – 16:30 |
Join us in Gather.Town! Poster session and open space for a lively discussion. |
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Day 2: 6 March 2024
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Time (UTC) |
Topic |
Presenter |
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13:00 – 13:05 |
Welcome Day 2 and recap Day 1 |
Peter Salamon (EC JRC) |
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13:05 – 13:15 |
GloFAS and GFM annual users’ surveys: 2022 results and follow-up actions |
Nina Bosshard (CEMS DISS/SMHI) Luca Molini (CEMS GFM/CIMA) |
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13:15 – 13:30 |
Keynote 1: The Africa Multi-Hazard Early Warning and Early Action System |
Lorenzo Alfieri (CIMA) |
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13:30 – 13:45 |
Keynote 2: Use of GloFAS products for food security assessment |
Shahriar Pervez (U.S. Geological Survey, Famine Early Warning Systems Network) |
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13:45 – 14:00 |
Keynote 3: Water depth estimate and flood extent enhancement using GFM |
Andrea Betterle (EC JRC) |
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14:00 – 14:20 |
Monitoring and reporting floods worldwide: analytics about GloFAS forecasts |
Ilias Pechlivanidis (CEMS DISS/SMHI) |
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14:20 – 14:35 |
BREAK |
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14:35 – 15:05 |
Use cases and applications (IGNITE talks) 1. Global modelling of total water storage variations (use of GloFAS set-up for geodetic analysis) 3. Enhancing impact-based Flood Detection and Mapping using Deep Learning 4. GFM product for flood monitoring in Brazil
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15:05 – 15:20 |
Peter Salamon (EC JRC) |
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15:20 – 15:25 |
Closing of the meeting and transfer to Gather.Town |
Peter Salamon (EC JRC) |
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15:25 – 16:00 |
Join us in Gather.Town! Poster session and open space for a lively discussion. |
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Water depth estimate and flood extent enhancement using GFM by Andrea Betterle (EC JRC)
Flood Foresight: Extending GloFAS for forecast - based financing and parametric insurance applications by Christine McKenna (JBA Consulting)
GloFAS Flood Thresholds by Ervin Zsoter (ECMWF)
The New CEMS-Floods Global Flood Hazard Maps by Calum Baugh (ECMWF)
Use of GFM Data to Support The Update of The Flood Vulnerability Atlas by Mauricio Coorderio
GloFAS products and methods (CEMS COMP/ECMWF)
GFM products and methods (CEMS GFM/CIMA)
How can I access CEMS GloFAS data? (CEMS COMP/ECMWF)
GloFAS on Climate Data Store (CDS) (CEMS COMP/ECMWF)
Share your hydrological in-situ data with GloFAS! (CEMS HYDRO/GHENOVA DIGITAL)
Open-source hydrological model LISFLOOD and high resolution GloFAS maps (EC JRC)