Description of the project
Meteorological hazards like wind storms and convective outbreaks leading to torrential rain and flooding affect all of Europe.
In fact, flooding causes the greatest loss of life of all the natural hazards. Convective storms, often accompanied by strong surface winds and torrential precipitation, can cause severe impacts particularly in mountainous areas. There, hydro-meteorological conditions can trigger natural disasters like flash floods, plains flooding and land instability phenomena, as e.g. in Sarno, southern Italy, where over 300 people lost their lives and many houses have been destroyed in 1997.
Events like those mentioned above demand for improved forecasts and timely warnings of such hazards in order to protect lives and properties.
- Prevention of geo-hydrological natural disaster at regional, national and trans-national level forced by meteorological situation
- Design and implementation of regional, national and trans-national programmes for geo-hydrological hazards assessment and risk management
The goal of the project is to enlarge the spectrum and quality of meteorological information up to the short range (0-24 hours) in order to support users in hydrology, geology, civil protection and related areas whose actions are dependent on timely information about severe meteorological events evolving on short time scale and local hydrogeological conditions. Therefore, the project aims at developing an integrated system which uses data from various sources in order to detect and forecast meteorological risk events.
Project main activities will focus on the:- Definition of methodologies, models and data set;
- Definition of common guidelines for risk prevention and management;
- Design and development of data communication system and archiving system;
- Implementation of the operational prototypes over selected target areas;
- Deployment of facility to end-user.
Project duration
| Date of project start | 01.2004 |
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| Date of project finalisation | 12.2006 |
| Duration in months | 36 |
Project cost
| Total | 2,801,425.00 |
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| ERDF funding | 1,451,069.00 |
| Public co-financing (EU partners) | 1,350,356.00 |
