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Published March 22, 2018 | Version v1
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A global network for operational flood risk reduction

Creators

  • 1. European Commission
  • 2. University of Alabama
  • 3. Atmospheric and Environmental Research
  • 4. Remote Sensing Solutions Inc.
  • 5. University of Leeds
  • 6. European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecast
  • 7. Columbia University
  • 8. University of Chicago
  • 9. CIMA Research Foundation
  • 10. Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Climate Change and Natural Disaster Studies
  • 11. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • 12. University of Colorado
  • 13. Wageningen University and Research Centre
  • 14. Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
  • 15. Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Description

Every year riverine flooding affects millions of people in developing countries, due to the large population exposure in the floodplains and the lack of adequate flood protection measures. Preparedness and monitoring are effective ways to reduce flood risk. State-of-the-art technologies relying on satellite remote sensing as well as numerical hydrological and weather predictions can detect and monitor severe flood events at a global scale. This paper describes the emerging role of the Global Flood Partnership (GFP), a global network of scientists, users, private and public organizations active in global flood risk management. Currently, a number of GFP member institutes regularly share results from their experimental products, developed to predict and monitor where and when flooding is taking place in near real-time. GFP flood products have already been used on several occasions by national environmental agencies and humanitarian organizations to support emergency operations and to reduce the overall socio-economic impacts of disasters. This paper describes a range of global flood products developed by GFP partners, and how these provide complementary information to support and improve current global flood risk management for large scale catastrophes. We also discuss existing challenges and ways forward to turn current experimental products into an integrated flood risk management platform to improve rapid access to flood information and increase resilience to flood events at global scale.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.envsci.2018.03.014
Other
oai:uchicago.tind.io:14116

Funding

NASA Coastal Hazards Demo Project
NNL16AA05C
UK Natural Environment Research Council
NE/P000525/1

UChicago Information

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Institutes & Centers
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Center for Translational Data Science