Forecasting and Communicating Water-Related Disasters in Africa
These training materials provide an introduction to the Ensemble Framework for Flash Flood Forecasting (EF5) system developed by the SERVIR Applied Sciences Team.
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These training materials provide an introduction to the Ensemble Framework for Flash Flood Forecasting (EF5) system developed by the SERVIR Applied Sciences Team.
Disaster preparedness and the water resource management require reliable and timely information. In many regions of the world, ground observation data is scarce. Here are three ways that SERVIR's innovative services and tools enable decision-makers and authorities to address water challenges.
|Chinmay Deval, NASA SCO Water Security Lead
Enhancing Flood Early Warning Services aims to build the resilience of vulnerable communities in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region by increasing flood forecast lead times that are hosted on an interactive web platform.
Through the Improving the Mekong River Commission's (MRC) Regional Flood Forecasting Service, SERVIR Mekong supported the MRC to use new-generation satellite-derived precipitation products to increase flood forecast accuracy.
The Mitigating Impacts and Increasing Benefits from Changing River Courses in Myanmar service supported national agencies in monitoring changing river courses and planning riverbank protection measures to mitigate localized impacts to infrastructure.
The Regional Stream Flow Monitoring and Forecasting Service was designed to provide real-time streamflow forecasts for several watersheds in East Africa and bias-corrected satellite precipitation products to enable the timely prediction and monitoring of extreme events.
The Satellite-Based Water Quality Monitoring Service leverages Earth observing satellite information to assess historical water quality changes of in-land trans-boundary lakes.
The Supporting Better Riverine and Flash Flood Forecasting for the Lower Mekong service improves riverine flood forecasts and enhances flash flood guidance monitoring in the region.
Through the Supporting Flood Emergency Preparedness for Myanmar Service, SERVIR Mekong co-developed and supported the use of a systematic decision-support tool for the Myanmar Department of Disaster Management to identify areas with high flood risk.
Susan Malaso Kotikot, an Earth System Science graduate student at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and a graduate research assistant at SERVIR, has claimed first prize for her submission to the inaugural College of Science Research Horizons Day poster contest.