Real-time flood decison support system integrating hydrological, meteorological and radar technologies

General Information

The FLOOD RELIEF project aims to 1) develop and demonstrate a new generation of flood forecasting methodologies which will advance present capabilities and accuracies and 2) to make the results more readily accessible both to flood managers and those threatened by floods. This is achieved by exploiting and integrating different sources of forecast information, including improved hydrological and meteorological model systems and databases, radar, advanced data assimilation procedures and uncertainty estimation, into real-time flood management decision support tool designed to meet the needs of regional flood forecasting authorities. The benefits expected from this project are increased accuracy of both the quantitative precipitation forecasts and hydrological forecasts, cost-effective implementation of numerical weather modelling for precipitation forecasts and a highly accessible internet-based forecast information system. The resulting technologies will be demonstrated for regional forecasting in Poland and the UK.

EU-Programme Acronym and Subprogramme Area	FP5-EESD-2001, Key action 1: Sustainable management and quality of water, Improved flood forecasting (1.1.4.-1.5.2)
Project Type	RTD
Contract Number	EVK1-CT-2002-00117
Co-ordinator	DHI-Institute of Water&Environment (DK)

Total Eligible Costs (€)	Hereon Eligible Costs (€)	EC Funding for Hereon (€)
2.456.605	432.660

Contact Person at Hereon

Dr. Theo Mengelkamp, Institute for Coastal Research, KSH Phone: +49-4152-87 1558, Fax : +49-4152-87 2020 E-mail contact

Participants

DHI - Institute of Water and Environment (DK), GEOMOR Gdansk (PL), Institute of Meteorology and Water Management Wroclaw (PL), National Environmental Research Institute (DK), The Environment Agency of England and Wales (UK), University of Bristol (UK)

Last Update: 16. April 2021