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 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 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. 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... continue

ARPAS SARDINIA

Sardinian Environmental Protection Agency launched a project to establish the “Regional Climatological Network - 1 st intervention” in order to monitor climate changes 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 continue

AOSTA VALLEY REGION

Adapting the entire meteo-hydrographic network to the most modern data acquisition and transmission technologies... continue

SOUTH-CENTRAL VIETNAM

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... continue

SICILY REGION

CAE for the Decentralized Functional Centre-Idro of the Sicily Region: the realization of a integrated, redundant and flexible meteorological detection system continue

ANAS S.P.A.

In Sardinia, CAE has implemented a monitoring and warning system focus on the hydraulic and hydrogeological risk, useful for automatically inhibiting the traffic... continue

CITY OF BELGRADE

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... continue

CITY OF UŽICE, SERBIA

CAE and its partner implemented the Early Warning System for the City of Užice, consisting of different types of stations and specialized software in response to the probability of flood occurrence in Užice. continue

MUNICIPALITY OF BATTIPAGLIA

On behalf of GBL Costruzioni SUD srl, CAE installed a monitoring and early warning system for a new railway underpass in the Municipality of Battipaglia, which will be useful for inhibiting circulation if flooding. continue

KYRGYZ REPUBLIC

As part of the project Central Asian Hydro-Meteorological Modernization Project, CAE implemented the hydrological monitoring networks, glaciers, roads and large cities equipped with automatic weather stations continue

ITALIAN COUNCIL FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND FOR THE ANALYSIS OF THE AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY (CREA)

The “turnkey” supply and maintenance of 39 latest-generation agrometeorological stations, located throughout the country, for the acquisition of meteorological data for monitoring the agricultural season continue