Implemented by the European Commission as part of the Copernicus Programme
Emergency
Management Service

LAST REMINDER: CEMS 2nd Global Flood Forecasting and Monitoring Meeting

Dear GloFAS and GFM community, 

The Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS) is organising the ‘2nd Global Flood Forecasting and Monitoring Meeting’ which will be hosted online via Zoom Webinar and the Gather.Town platform on Wednesday 08 and Thursday 09 February 2023.

To register for the event, please click on the Zoom Webinar registration link to enter your details. Registration for the workshop will remain open until the 31 January 2023. 

The event focuses on recent advances in global flood forecasting and monitoring. The workshop will include sessions on new developments to the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) and the Global Flood Monitoring (GFM) products, to data access, use cases and applications, and an open panel discussions.

Two sessions are scheduled over the two days of the workshop to accommodate people working in different time zones. The presentations will be held from 13:00 to 17:00 (UTC) during both days of the event.  The latest version of agenda can be found below. The full agenda of the workshop will be made available to all registered participants shortly before the event.

The format of the workshop will be highly interactive, including discussions and booths in Gather.Town. Participants will have opportunities to connect with people from the GloFAS and GFM communities to discuss their work and expand their networks.

We hope you will attend!

The GloFAS and GFM teams

Day 1:  8 February 2023

Time (UTC)

Topic

Presenter

13:00 – 13:05

Opening and welcome

Peter Salamon (EC JRC)

13:05 – 13:20

A short intro to the Global Flood Awareness System GloFAS

Christel Prudhomme, (ECMWF)

13:20 – 13:40

What’s new in GloFAS v4.0?

Stefania Grimaldi (EC JRC)

13:40 – 14:00

A detailed look at the new Global Flood Monitoring (GFM) product

Christian Krullikowski (German Aerospace Center)

14:00 – 14:40

Use cases and applications (IGNITE talks - 5mins each):

  1. Improving flood early warning systems through the combined use of GLOFAS, archived information and hydrological modelling
  2. Exemplary evaluation results of the Global Flood Monitoring (GFM) product for applications in German federal agencies
  3. Flood depth estimation from GFM and global DEMs
  4. Operational bias correction tool for GeoGlows and Glofas forecasts
  5. Multi-reservoir system operation in the Zambezi River Basin using global hydrological forecasts
  6. Computing flood hazards and impacts using GloFAS data and CLIMADA
  7. From GloFAS RRA to impacts from Social Media

 

  1. Juan Villagran De Leon (UN-SPIDER)
  2. Dr. SIlke Mechernich (Federal Institute of Hydrology, Germany)
  3. Arjen Haag (Deltares)
  4. Dr. Amir Givati (Tel Aviv University)
  5. Dr. Andrea Ficchi (Politecnico di Milan)
  6. Lukas Riedel (ETH Zürich / Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MeteoSwiss)
  7. Valerio Lorini (JRC, EC)

14:40 – 15:25

Panel discussion:

#EarlyWarning4All – How can GloFAS and GFM contribute to the UN Global Early Warning Initiative?

 

Monica Turner (UN Office for the coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)

Stefan Uhlenbrook (World Meteorological Organization)

Abdou Ali (AGRHYMET CCR AOS)

15:25 – 15:35

Creating flood event based information merging GloFAS, GFM and media sources

Milan Kalas (EC JRC)  

15:35 – 15:45

Presentation of Gather.Town activities and transfer to Gather.Town

Karen O’Reagan (ECMWF)

15:45 – 17:00

Join us in Gather.Town! Check out our booths, ask questions and discuss with us!

 

Day 2: 9 February 2023

Time (UTC)

Topic

Presenter

13:00 – 13:05

Welcome Day 2 and recap Day 1

Peter Salamon (EC JRC)

13:05 – 13:20

ARC flood insurance product which relies on GLOFAS

Charles Serele  (African Risk Capacity)

13:20 – 13:35

Impact-based multi-hazard forecasting in Africa

Lorenzo Alfieri (CIMA Foundation)

13:35 – 13: 50

The new GFM archive  (incl. Q&A)

Bernhard Bauer-Marschallinger (TU Vienna)

13:50 – 14:05

Accessing and using GFM data

Michaela Seewald (GeoVille)

14:05 – 14:15

Using the C3S Climate Data Store to access GloFAS data

Edward Comyn-Platt (ECMWF)

14:15 – 14:25

The new GloFAS user guide

 

Nina Bosshard, SMHI

14:25 – 15:00

Use cases and applications (IGNITE talks - 5mins each):

  1. Flood Foresight: Extending GloFAS for forecast-based financing and parametric insurance applications
  2.  GloFAS dataset for flood frequency analysis in data-sparse regions of Iran
  3. Compound flood modelling/forecasting where one could use GLOFAS forecasts as boundary condition or GFM products as validation (tbc)
  4. Pakistan Floods case
  5. Advanced Disaster Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) for flood monitoring and response
  6. GloFAS and GFM data usage in the context of the Horizon Europe project CENTAUR

 

 

  1. John Bevington (JBA Consulting)
  2. Ass. Prof. Asghar Azizian (Water Engineering Department, IKIU University, Iran)
  3. Dr. Albrecht Weerts (Deltares)
  4. Rachel Abela (DG ECHO, EC)
  5. Michael Manalili (UN World Food Program)
  6. Luisa Bettili (e-Geos)

15:00 – 15:05

Closing of the meeting and transfer to Gather.Town

Peter Salamon (EC JRC)

15:05 – 17:00

Join us in Gather.Town! Check out our booths, ask questions and discuss with us!

 

Gather.Town booths:

  • GloFAS user corner – ask questions about GloFAS forecast products! Ervin Zsoter (ECMWF)
  • GFM user corner - ask questions about GFM satellite monitoring products! Luca Molini (CIMA Foundation) and Tobias Stachl (EODC)
  • How can I access data from GloFAS? Edward Comyn-Platt (ECMWF)
  • How can I access data from the GFM? Michaela Seewald (GeoVille)
  • Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS) – find out about the other components of CEMS Peter Salamon (EC JRC)
  • Share your hydrological in-situ data with us to further improve GloFAS! Alejandro Serratosa Marquez (Ghenova Digital)
  • Find out about the open-source hydrological model LISFLOOD used in GloFAS! Carlo Russo, Stefania Grimaldi (EC-JRC)
  • Leave your feedback! Nina Bosshard (SMHI)

Gather.Town Posters:

  1. Multi-reservoir system operation in the Zambezi River Basin using global hydrological forecasts -  Dr. Andrea Ficchi (Politecnico di Milano)
  2. GloFAS dataset for flood frequency analysis in data-sparse regions of Iran - Ass. Prof. Asghar Azizian (Water Engineering Department, IKIU University, Iran)
  3. DG ECHO Daily Map Pakistan Floods – (Rachel Abela, DG ECHO, EC)
  4. Computing flood hazards and impacts using GloFAS data and CLIMADA - Lukas Riedel (ETH Zürich / Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MeteoSwiss)
  5. Flood Foresight: Extending GloFAS for forecast-based financing and parametric insurance applications – John Bevington (JBA Consulting)
  6. Flood Monitoring from the ground: From Glofas RRA to impacts from social media – Valerio Lorini (JRC, EC)


By Peter Salamon     Dec. 21, 2022, 4:17 p.m.