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| Titel |
INCA-CE: A Central European initiative in nowcasting applications |
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Ingo Meirold-Mautner, Benedikt Bica, Yong Wang |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2011
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Artikel
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Englisch
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PDF |
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In: GRA - Volume 13 (2011) |
| Datensatznummer |
250051744
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Severe weather is responsible for many natural disasters causing damage and loss of life.
Short term forecasting (nowcasting) forms an integral part of early warning systems for civil
protection, flood protection and road safety. In recent years, nowcasting has improved
significantly and forecasts at very high spatial and temporal scales (e.g. at 1km and in
15min time steps) have been made available. Thus, severe weather conditions such
as heavy rain, snow or hail and storms can be predicted with enhanced accuracy.
Such information is crucial for flood predictions, civil protection and road safety
applications. However, the direct link between nowcasting and those applications is still
poor.
INCA-Central Europe is a project supported by the European Regional Development
Fund which aims at building the link between nowcasting and the application side. Within the
project, the INCA nowcasting system, which is in operational use at the Austrian weather
service (ZAMG) will be advanced and refined to the specific needs of selected users. With 16
project partners from 8 central European countries, a trans-regional and trans-disciplinary
approach is adopted. Partners of this project are meteorological and hydrological services as
well as public agencies responsible for civil protection, crisis management and road
safety. Therefore, nowcasting applications will be tailored to the specific needs of
early warning services and moreover, applications for warning purposes will be
developed.
In this presentation the objectives of the project, the nowcasting system INCA, the
approach for implementing the project, and the strategies for weather forecasting
in the fields of civil protection, flood management and road safety are presented. |
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