Monitoring and early warning system for extreme precipitation

Risk due to extreme weather events

Intense precipitations

Description

Monitoring intense precipitations allows collecting all information pertaining to the current precipitation event and sending them to the reference centrals with extreme accuracy even under particularly adverse conditions. Monitoring systems allow measuring the quantity and intensity of rain as well as the quality classifications of meteors, fundamental data to support the authorities in the event of an emergency as well as for many other processes useful for the transport, agriculture and other sectors.These data play a central role within multiple risk contexts, since they are fundamental variants that significantly impact the hydrogeological and water risk, as a causative element.

main measurements

Rain intensity and accumulation
Atmospheric pressure
Air temperature and humidity

Case history

ARGENTINA PROVINCE OF BUENOS AIRES

The final beneficiary of the hydrometeorological monitoring network installed by CAE is the Institute for Flat Lands Hydrology (Instituto de Hidrologia de llanura – HILLA), declared by UNESCO in 2003 the “reference Centre for Flat Lands Hydrology in Latin America and the Caribbean”. The network is used for the real-time monitoring of an area subject to sudden and disrupting floods, allowing timely and accurate alerts to population. continue

CENTRAL VIETNAM

The Central Provinces of Vietnam, dislocated North and South of the coastal city of Da Nang, are periodically hit by heavy rains that, given the orography of the area, causing flash floods. To reduce the risk of inundations and optimize water supply in densely populated areas, it is important that local authorities have access to real-time hydrological monitoring networks. The Italian Co-operation funds the project, for Development and the beneficiary is the National Hydro-Meteorological Service. continue

SOUTH VIETNAM

The monitoring network system created in the Southern Vietnam was financed by the World Bank to enforce and implement a system that could prevent flooding of the Mekong Delta. The project beneficiary is the National Hydro Meteorological Service of Vietnam. The system created has provide the National Service with a network that helps monitoring floods caused by the widest river in Indo-China region, alerts the population in case of danger and optimize irrigation and aquaculture. continue

CIVIL DEFENSE OF BASILICATA

The Infrastructure, Public Works and Mobility department of the Basilicata region has invested in the Enhancement and maintenance of the water and rain monitoring network in real time project, which had two objectives: Allowing civil defense activities by means of a suitable and systematic service of network maintenance; Expanding their know-how to improve their capacity to face extreme events by means of simulated rain gauges and forecast data This is because the exceptional snow falls of February 2012 and the ... continue

ARPAS SARDINIA

Sardinian Environmental Protection Agency (APAS) has launched a project to establish the “Regional Climatological Network - 1 st intervention” in order to set up the first stations of a regional network to monitor some climate changes with the greatest impacts on human activities, such as global warming or the variability of rainfall and wind regimes . The network collects useful information to support the activities of D ecentralized Functional C enter - Civil Protection Department, to better estimate the frequency ... continue

MALDIVES METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE (MMS)

The Maldives are highly vulnerable to natural disasters, especially during the South-West monsoon season, because of their geoclimatic conditions, and these risks clearly affect the profile of physical and socioeconomic vulnerability of the country. Extreme events , including flash flooding, long periods of drought, high waves, rough seas, hurricanes, tornadoes and strong winds , will become more frequent due to the increase in frequency and intensity of climate change , and will negatively affect all major sectors of the national ... continue

AOSTA VALLEY REGION

The telemetric network of the Autonomous Region of the Aosta Valley originated from the union of four existing networks, with provisions from an equal number of companies, at various times. A call for tenders was launched to adapt the entire meteo-hydrographic monitoring network to the most modern data acquisition and transmission technologies, thus focused on providing the maintenance for the entire network, introducing open and latest-generation technologies . continue

VIETNAM METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL ADMINISTRATION

Floods in Vietnam represent a constant threat that occur throughout the year in different areas of the Country, affect the safety and well-being of the population and cause enormous economic loss, which in turn hamper the social development. Minimizing flooding damages is among the main target of all Vietnamese institutions concerned, especially the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE). Vietnam Hydro-Meteorological Administration (VNHMA) has the responsibility to upgrade the specialized telecommunication system with advanced technologies to ensure the timely ... continue

UNDP – City of Belgrade

The City of Belgrade is the largest urban settlement in the Republic of Serbia, as well as its administrative and commercial centre. In May 2014, the city suffered substantial damage, in particular in the peripheral area, and that led to the evacuation of many people. This event pointed out how vulnerable cities are to natural disasters, which is why the City of Belgrade, together with the United Nations Development Program (UNPD), has planned a 3-year cooperation to improve Belgrade's resilience ... continue