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| Titel |
Presentation and preliminary evaluation of the operational Early Warning System in Cyprus |
| VerfasserIn |
K. Savvidou, S. Michaelides, K. A. Nicolaides, P. Constantinides |
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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| ISSN |
1561-8633
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| Erschienen |
In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Science ; 9, no. 4 ; Nr. 9, no. 4 (2009-07-21), S.1213-1219 |
| Datensatznummer |
250006884
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/nhess-9-1213-2009.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The Cyprus Early Warning System (EWS) and its validation
are presented in this study. The EWS was developed within the framework of
the Weather Risk Reduction in the Mediterranean project (RiskMed), the main
objective of which is to warn the authorities and the public for severe
weather phenomena, in order to minimise the impacts of weather related
hazards. For the validation of the EWS, a comparison is made between the
output of the system and the observations retrieved from 24 automatic
weather stations operated by the Meteorological Service of Cyprus. From the
validation, it resulted that the system underestimates the temperatures and
overestimates the rain and the wind over Cyprus. These results can be
attributed, firstly to the sea coverage of the study areas and secondly to
the weakness of the weather model to represent topography. The EWS is a
useful forecasting tool for local weather forecasters whose duties include
the issue of warnings which are subsequently disseminated to the appropriate
authorities acting for the safety of people and properties. |
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