Integrating a European Rainfall-InduCed Hazard Assessment system
ACRONYM: ERICHA
PERIOD:01/01/2016 -31/08/2017
FINANCING ENTITY:ECHO-718684-ERICHA
Heavy rain and severe storm phenomena (wind gusts, lightning, hail…) are the triggering factors of a number of different natural hazards (flash floods, landslides, debris flows…) that have impacts on people’s life and goods. ERICHA project aims to improve existing operational tools to provide Early Warnings integrating advanced forecasting and hazard assessment products based on the radar composites produced by the EUMETNET project OPERA. This project will integrate the improved developments of projects HAREN and EDHIT as an operational module into the real-time platform of the European Flood Awareness System (EFAS), which provides direct support to the European Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) of the DG ECHO in collaboration with the JRC and the ECMWF
The Consortium is composed by 3 organisation
- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) Coordinador
- Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)
- Finnish Ministry of Interior, Department for Rescue Services (DRS)
and, 5 Stakeholders:
- OPERA-EUMETNEt
- European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF)
- Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Climate Risk Management Unit, Joint Research Centre – Commission of the European Communities (JRC)
- Dirección General de Protección Civil y Emergencias de España (DGPCE)
- VAISALA
- 2019. Park, S.; Berenguer, M.; Sempere-Torres, D. Long-term analysis of gauge-adjusted radar rainfall accumulations at European scale. Journal of hydrology. Vol. 573 p. 768-777 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.03.093
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