TY - JOUR
T1 - Quality Control, Validation and User Feedback of the European Flood Alert System (EFAS)
AU - de Roo, A.P.J.
AU - Thielen, J.
AU - Salamon, P.
AU - Pappenberger, F.
AU - Bogner, K.
AU - Nobert, S.
AU - Cloke, H.
AU - Demeritt, D.
AU - Younis, J.
AU - Kalas, M.
AU - Bodis, K.
AU - Muraro, D.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The quality control, validation and verification of the European Flood Alert System (EFAS) are described. EFAS is designed as a flood early warning system at pan-European scale, to complement national systems and provide flood warnings more than 2 days before a flood. On average 20–30 alerts per year are sent out to the EFAS partner network which consists of 24 National hydrological authorities responsible for transnational river basins. Quality control of the system includes the evaluation of the hits, misses and false alarms, showing that EFAS has more than 50% of the time hits. Furthermore, the skills of both the meteorological as well as the hydrological forecasts are evaluated, and are included here for a 10-year period. Next, end-user needs and feedback are systematically analysed. Suggested improvements, such as real-time river discharge updating, are currently implemented
AB - The quality control, validation and verification of the European Flood Alert System (EFAS) are described. EFAS is designed as a flood early warning system at pan-European scale, to complement national systems and provide flood warnings more than 2 days before a flood. On average 20–30 alerts per year are sent out to the EFAS partner network which consists of 24 National hydrological authorities responsible for transnational river basins. Quality control of the system includes the evaluation of the hits, misses and false alarms, showing that EFAS has more than 50% of the time hits. Furthermore, the skills of both the meteorological as well as the hydrological forecasts are evaluated, and are included here for a 10-year period. Next, end-user needs and feedback are systematically analysed. Suggested improvements, such as real-time river discharge updating, are currently implemented
U2 - 10.1080/17538947.2010.510302
DO - 10.1080/17538947.2010.510302
M3 - Article
SN - 1753-8947
VL - 4
SP - 77
EP - 90
JO - International Journal of Digital Earth
JF - International Journal of Digital Earth
IS - Suppl 1
ER -