DATASET

Floods in Norway (2018-05-10)

Collection: CEMS-RM : CEMS Rapid Mapping 

Description


Activation time (UTC): 2018-05-10 21:00:00
Event time (UTC): 2018-05-10 20:00:00
Event type: Flood (Ice jam flood)

Activation reason:
After a winter with an exceptional amount of snowfall there is an ongoing spring flood due to snow melt, made worse by the high temperatures experienced last week. The flood is expected to increase due to forecasted rainfall from Friday 11.05.2018 until Sunday 13.05.2018.



Reference products: 0
Delineation products: 26
Grading products: 0

Copernicus Emergency Management Service - Mapping is a service funded by European Commission aimed at providing actors in the management of natural and man-made disasters, in particular Civil Protection Authorities and Humanitarian Aid actors, with mapping products based on satellite imagery.

Contact

Email
jrc-ems-rapidmapping (at) ec.europa.eu

Contributors

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2018): Floods in Norway (2018-05-10). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/1bd644a5-41cc-42c3-aff8-30dc7a8b1bc9

Keywords

Copernicus CEMS Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation Copernicus EMS Emergency Emergency Management Copernicus Service EMSR283 Flood NOR Mapping Norway Rapid Mapping

Data access

Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping Activation [EMSR283]: Floods in Norway (2018-05-10)
URL 
  • All maps produced in scope of this Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping activation downloadable as georeferenced PDFs, TIFFs and JPEGs together with relevant vector data (SHP, KML) as well.

Spatial coverage

Type Value
GML
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GML
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WKT
POLYGON ((9.32426632338 61.8642466368, 12.637914128 61.8642466368, 12.637914128 59.867284676, 9.32426632338 59.867284676, 9.32426632338 61.8642466368))

Lineage information

No additional information

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date
2021-04-19
Modified date
2021-04-19
Issued date
2018-05-10
Landing page
https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR283 
Language(s)
English
Data theme(s)
Regions and cities, Science and technology
Update frequency
unknown
Identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/1bd644a5-41cc-42c3-aff8-30dc7a8b1bc9
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