EFAS flood warnings and aid activations

Description

This data set contains the locations of active EFAS flood warnings and ERCC (Emergency Response Coordination Centre) activations.

In detail, this dataset contains four different types of locations: 1) region or river basin where an EFAS Formal Flood Notification has been sent to. 2) region or river basin where an EFAS Informal Flood Notification has been sent to. 3) region or river basin where an EFAS Flash Flood Notification has been sent to. 4) International aid has been requested to the ERCC due to a significant flood event.

This information is produced by the operational EFAS (www.efas.eu) in order to communicate to the EFAS partners the location at which there is a high probability of flooding forecasted.

The update frequency of this data set is twice a day (00:00 and 12:00 UTC); and the spatial coverage is the extended geographic Europe.

Contact

Email: Peter.SALAMON (at) ec.europa.eu

Contributors

European Commission, Joint Research Centre

https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/joint-research-centre

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2017): EFAS flood warnings and aid activations. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/732cf164-d7d6-4c90-9579-ee7774497f9c

Keywords

Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service EFAS flood forecast flood warning pan European

Data access

EFAS active information

Use conditions
Access conditions: Authorisation required

URL

This data set can be viewed by EFAS partners online under www.efas.eu by activating the layer "EFAS active information"

EFAS WMS-T (Web Map Service Time)

Use conditions
Access conditions: Authorisation required

URL

EFAS partners have the possibility to access and download selected products from the operational EFAS by using this password-protected OGC service.

EFAS Sensor Observation Service (SOS)

Use conditions
Access conditions: Authorisation required

URL

EFAS partners have the possibility to access and download selected products from the operational EFAS by using this password-protected OGC service.

Publications

Publication

Medium Range Flood Forecasting - Example EFAS

Thielen Del Pozo, J., Salamon, P., Burek, P., Pappenberger, F., Cristina, A., Sprokkereef, E., Hazlinger, M., Garcia-Padilla, M. and Garcia‐sanchez, R., Medium Range Flood Forecasting - Example EFAS, In: Handbook of Hydrometeorological Ensemble Forecasting, 2016, ISBN 978-3-642-40457-3, p. 1-17, JRC102648.

DOI

10.1007/978-3-642-40457-3_51-1

Spatial coverage

GML

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GML

<gml:Polygon xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2">  <gml:exterior>    <gml:LinearRing>      <gml:posList>-11.5 67 41 67 41 27 -11.5 27 -11.5 67</gml:posList>    </gml:LinearRing>  </gml:exterior></gml:Polygon>

WKT

POLYGON ((-11.5 67, 41 67, 41 27, -11.5 27, -11.5 67))

Lineage information

No additional information

Additional information

Published by: European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date: 2020-09-11
Modified date: 2020-09-11
Issued date: 2017-03-06
Landing page: https://www.efas.eu/
Language(s): English
Data theme(s): Environment, Health, Science and technology
Update frequency: continuous
Identifier: http://data.europa.eu/89h/732cf164-d7d6-4c90-9579-ee7774497f9c
Popularity: 01 Apr 2024: 1 visits