It couples state-of-the art weather forecasts with an hydrological model. Find out more!
{% trans "Global Flood Awareness System in a nutshell" %}
The Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS), jointly developed by the European Commission and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
(ECMWF), is independent of administrative and political
boundaries. It couples state-of-the art weather forecasts with a hydrological model and with its continental scale set-up it provides downstream countries
with information on upstream river conditions as well as continental and global overviews.
- GloFAS produces daily flood forecasts in a pre-operational manner since June 2011
- GloFAS has shown its potential during the floods in Pakistan in August 2013 or in Sudan in September 2013
Twitter {% trans "View @globalfloods_eu on Twitter" %}
{% trans "Prototype for social media analysis for flood events" %}
{% trans "This example shows an aggregated 24 hours filtered flood signal from Twitter for 24th of July 2013 in form of a heat map (read color=high signal)." %} It is considered as a valid signal Twitter messages containing top 25 bigrams extracted from Twitter streaming over the last 10 days prior to the day of 24 hourly analysis.