Transcript 14016 - Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

The Global Flood Partnership
bridging the gaps from science to operations
www.jrc.ec.europa.eu
Jutta Thielen-del Pozo, T. De
Groeve and R. Brakenridge*
*Dartmouth Flood Observatory
Serving society
Stimulating innovation
Supporting legislation
Flooding – a local threat with global dimensions
Key words: Vulnerable societies – cross-sectoral impacts - climate change
World Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction, Sendai, 2015
Bridging gap between science and
operations – a multidisciplinary challenge
Industry
GIS and
mapping
Hydro
logy
Remote
sensing
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Develop
ment
organiza
tions
Humanitarian
responders
Meteoro
logy
Modeling
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Launching the Global Flood Partnership
Partnering for global flood forecasting, monitoring and
impact assessment to strengthen preparedness and
response and to reduce disaster losses
Global Flood Working Group, 4-6 March 2014, ECMWF, UK
T. De Groeve (JRC, lead), J. Thielen (JRC) and R.
Brakenridge (Dartmouth Flood Observatory)
Global Flood Partnership
User Forum
User conference, feedback
loop
Flood Toolbox
improve
Data, models,
services
Research &
Development
10 day
forecast
Operational advice with
data, models, services
Maps
Impact
International aid
and development
organisations
mainstream
integrate
Integration, Global to
local, Assimilation,
Climate risk, Tailored
services, Impact
risk
build
Flood Record
Losses, hydrological
data, maps
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run
Flood Observatory
maintain
Training
National flood
disaster
management
authorities
participate
Capacity building
and maintaining
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Key words of the partnership
partnership
• Global
• Operational
• Innovative
• Shared
• Restricted
• Not authorative
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It works (already)
Malawi flood event
• Several weeks of heavy
rainfalls followed by
devastating flooding
• State of emergency
declared on 13 January
2015
• More than 650 000
people affected,
casualties, damage to
crop and livestock
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Picture from: MapAction
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GFP “in action”
14 January
Request for more information by UN World Food Programme (WFP)
14 January
Overview report from Global Flood Awareness System.
14 January
Information from the EU Civil Protection portal was shared with WFP
http://erccportal.jrc.ec.europa.eu/About-us/Full-Text-Search?Search=malawi
15 January
ITHACA provided an EXTREME RAINFALL ASSESSMENT for Malawi 15/01/2015
15 January
• Vienna University of Technology communicates that satellite-based flood maps
available based on TerraSAR-X from the German Aerospace Centre (DLR).
• WFP communicated that maps were shared with the country offices
15 January
16 January
Communication that GFDRR is getting involved
Dartmouth flood observatory: floods are mapped manually
16 January
NASA : the charter has been activated for Mozambique but not yet Malawi. Satellite
imagery does not yet show flooding at the mouth of the Zambezi
16 January
Upon a request for clarification if the charter has been activated, UNOSAT confirms
that the Charter has been activated for Malawi
20 January
Malawi Floods - ECHO Civil Protection Message no.1 which contains an update on the
situation is distributed
EU CP triggers COPERNICUS Emergency Management Mapping service
27 January
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Global flood and rainfall forecasts
• Extreme Forecasting Index (EFI) from European Centre
for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF)
• Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS - JRC, ECMWF)
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Dartmouth Flood Observatory
Sample, southern Mozambique. Red is flooding as recorded by lower backscatter in Jan. 11 Sentinel 1 SAR
image, compared to previous image Dec. 24. Data courtesy of the European Space Agency
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Other information links on
the flooding
communicated:
http://www.masdap.mw/
http://www.unitar.org/unosat/
node/44/2152
http://www.zki.dlr.de/article/27
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www.ithacaweb.org
https://www.gfdrr.org/
www.dartmouth.edu/~floods
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http://emergency.copernicus.eu
Announcement:
2015 conference of the
Global Flood Partnership
4-6 May 2015 in Boulder, Colorado
More info and Registration:
http://portal.gdacs.org/2015-Flood-Workshop
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The Global Flood Partnership
Conference brings together 80-100
scientists and practitioners that
contribute to building a sustainable
infrastructure to monitor and
forecast flood impacts and build risk
products to help prevent and
mitigate flood disasters worldwide
Tackling flooding holistically
Prevention:
Hazard and risk mapping,
climate change adaptation
and mitigation, flood risk
management plans
Preparedness
Early warning systems,
Flood monitoring and
detection, inundation
modelling
Recovery:
Financial support, insurance
Response
Detection, Flood extent
mapping, information
sharing
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Cross-Cutting
Data, tools, research, knowledge transfer, communication,
Science for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2nd February 2015