{"id":767,"date":"2020-05-13T07:20:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T06:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimafoundation.org\/2020\/05\/17\/egu-2020-the-presentations-by-cima-research-foundation-researchers\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T08:19:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T08:19:45","slug":"egu-2020-the-presentations-by-cima-research-foundation-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/en\/news\/egu-2020-the-presentations-by-cima-research-foundation-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"EGU 2020, the presentations by CIMA Research Foundation researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During the annual meeting of the European Geoscience Union, the results of the most recent research in the field of forecasting and prevention of risks of natural origin were presented<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The EGU General Assembly 2020<\/a>, the annual meeting of the European Geoscience Union, was held last week. Seven days of online and completely free of charge conferences, during which professionals from the scientific world were able to meet each other and the non-specialist public. The meeting touched on a wide range of scientific research topics, from natural hazards to space missions, and climate studies to water management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the many\npresentations that took place, five were made by CIMA Research Foundation\nresearchers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The forecasting and prevention of flood risk in Guyana<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Among the researches presented, the one brought b<\/a>y Alessandro Masoero<\/a> and his colleagues of the Hydrology and Hydraulics Department<\/a> reconstructed the path taken in Guyana in collaboration with the United Nations Programme for Satellite Operational Applications<\/a> (UNOSAT) within the “Strengthening Disaster Management Capacity of Women in Guyana and Dominica” project, led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and dedicated to the strengthening of resilience to disasters of natural origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe more strictly technical component of the project aims to develop a system of early flood warning at national level, starting with the improvement of the predictive and informative capacity of hydrological models<\/strong>\u201d, says Masoero. In particular, the Foundation’s researchers are working on the development of the forecasting chain, which will then be used for the subsequent communication steps: the drafting of a risk bulletin and dialogue with the local population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis work is a meeting point between strictly scientific and technical-application development\u201d, continues the researcher. \u201cWe based it on the Flood-PROOFS<\/a> system, which combines data from observation networks and weather forecasting models to assess the possible effects of precipitation on the ground in a given area\u201d. However, Masoero explains, the difficulty arises when there is a lack of available data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From community to model. And back<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In order to face this\nproblem, researchers from CIMA Research Foundation and UNOSAT, together with\nthe technicians of the Hydrometeorological Service of Guyana, carried out\nprecise hydraulic surveys in the field and collaborated\ndirectly with the local communities<\/strong> (the detailed hydraulic forecast, the\nlast piece of the forecasting chain, focused on four locations in Guyana),\ncollecting a series of information on the vulnerability and characteristics of\nfloods in the territory: how often is there a flood? What level does the water\nreach? \u201cIt was therefore not strictly technical information, but it helped to both\ncalibrate the hydraulic model and to better respond to the needs of the\ncommunities\u201d, says Masoero. \u201cThis way, we were able to develop a forecasting\nchain capable of indicating, 3-5 days in advance, the probability that the\nwater could exceed a value defined as critical by the community itself\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The technical-operational data analysis service is entrusted to the Hydrometeorological Service of Guyana, part of the Ministry of Agriculture of the country. The visualization platform is the Carribean Dewetra Platform, developed by the Caribbean Insitute for Meteorology and Hydrology<\/a> (CIMH), which has implemented it since 2011, within the Enhancing Resilience to Reduce Vulnerability in the Caribbean<\/a> project, starting from the Dewetra<\/a> system developed by CIMA Research Foundation. In February of this year, CIMH held a workshop on the use of the platform (described here<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the coming days we\nwill review the other work carried out by our researchers and presented at the\nEGU General Assembly 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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