Forecast communication

Improving a Flood Warning System is also a social issue!

Contributed by France Daupras Improving flood forecasting has become a technological race. Major advances have been made over the last […]

Pakistan Flood 2014- Lesson Identified Never Learned

Contributed by Bapon Shm Fakhruddin I wrote similar article right after 2010 floods.  I had a chance to work in […]

What do operational forecasters really want from their systems?

Operational hydrological forecasting systems have seen a quite remarkable development during the last 10-15 years. Ensemble forecasts, improved numerical weather […]

Meeting “meteorological communicators”

Contributed by Anders Persson, a HEPEX guest columnist for 2014 Last winter I worked on a biography of Vilho Väisälä, […]

Good practices in forecast uncertainty assessment and communication

Contributed by Lionel Berthet and Olivier Piotte The French Flood Forecasting Service (SCHAPI) recently carried out a survey to identify […]

Keep the information flooding in – Social and mainstream media monitoring for improved disaster management

Contributed by Milan Kalas, Davide Muraro, Tomas Kliment, JuttaThielen and Florian Pappenberger Several days of exceptionally intense and continued rainfalls […]