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ERIC flash flood indicator

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EFAS holds two flash flood indicators: ERIC and ERICHA. The ERIC flash flood indicator data set holds two layers. The one layer contains key locations at which the ERIC flash flood indicator forecasts a high probability of exceeding the 5-/20-year return period. For those locations additional hydrological information are provided. The second layer outlines the drainage area affected by heavy precipitation and potential flash floods.

This information is part of the operational suit of EFAS (www.efas.eu) and intends to provide EFAS partners with in-depth information at relevant key locations along affected European rivers to facilitate decision making.

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.

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (2026): ERIC flash flood indicator. [Dataset] doi: 10.2905/JRC.H4Q9Q3G PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/2cb90898-76a4-46cf-a6d4-24a46d098327

Keywords

CopernicusCopernicus Emergency Management ServiceEFASflash floodflood forecastheavy precipitationhydrological extremespan European

Data access

EFAS Sensor Observation Service (SOS)
HTML

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Web service/API

A resource that holds a web service to the dataset.

Use conditions
Not available
Access conditions
Authorisation required

Only some users can access the resource.

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

EFAS WMS-T (Web Map Service Time)
WMS

A Web Map Service (WMS) is a standard protocol developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) for serving georeferenced map images over the Internet. These images are typically produced by a map server from data provided by a geographic information system (GIS) database.
Web service/API

A resource that holds a web service to the dataset.

Use conditions
Not available
Access conditions
Authorisation required

Only some users can access the resource.

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

Latest 24-hour precipitation
Esri binary grid

Esri binary grid is a proprietary binary variation of an Esri grid, a raster GIS file format developed by Esri. It is also known as an ARC/INFO GRID or ARC GRID. It differs from the other Esri grid variation, a non-proprietary ASCII format.

Use conditions
Not available
Access conditions
Authorisation required

Only some users can access the resource.

  • This data set can be viewed by EFAS partners online under www.efas.eu by activating the layer "Latest 24-hour precip."

Spatial coverage

Lineage information

No additional information

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Contact email
jrc-data-support (at) ec.europa.eu
Update frequency
unknown

The event occurs with unknown regularity.

Language(s)
English

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Data theme(s)
Environment

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Issued date
2017-03-06
Created date
02 Mar 2026 17:06
Modified date
11 Sep 2020 22:03
Landing page
https://www.efas.eu/ 
Dataset identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/2cb90898-76a4-46cf-a6d4-24a46d098327
Other identifiers
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