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Floods in Queensland, Australia (2022-02-26)

Collection: CEMS-RM : CEMS Rapid Mapping 

Description


Activation time (UTC): 2022-02-26 19:27:00
Event time (UTC): 2022-02-26 08:00:00
Event type: Flood (Riverine flood)

Activation reason:
The Australian continent continues to experience a prolonged rainfall event associated with the current La Nina event. This ongoing weather pattern has now impacted South East Queensland where a large number of the communities within the area are experiencing once in a generation flooding. The National Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) have issued Queensland with numerous flood warnings for rivers and their catchments throughout the southern part of the State. Conditions are expected to continue for another two days with significant rainfall over a very sodden catchment.

Reference products: 0
Delineation products: 24
Grading products: 0

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Contact

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

Contributors

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2022): Floods in Queensland, Australia (2022-02-26). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/5b1f3a3e-e418-4dc4-b782-35462b04c83b

Keywords

AUS Australia CEMS Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Service Copernicus EMS Emergency EMSR567 Flood Emergency Management Mapping Rapid Mapping Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation

Data access

Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping Activation [EMSR567]: Floods in Queensland, Australia (2022-02-26)
Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice 
Access conditions
No limitations 
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  • 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

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Lineage information

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Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date
2022-05-20
Modified date
2022-05-20
Issued date
2022-02-26
Landing page
https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR567 
Language(s)
English
Data theme(s)
Regions and cities, Science and technology
Update frequency
unknown
Identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/5b1f3a3e-e418-4dc4-b782-35462b04c83b
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