3rd Global Flood Forecasting and Monitoring Annual Meeting, 05-06 March: REGISTER NOW!
Join the 3rd Copernicus Emergency Service (CEMS) Global Flood Forecasting and Monitoring Annual Meeting to learn about the most recent advances and developments to the CEMS Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) and to the CEMS Global Flood Monitoring (GFM) products and data.
The annual meeting will be hosted online on 05 and 06 March 2024, from 13:00 to 16:30 (UTC) during both days of the event.
The format of the meeting will be highly interactive, including ignite and keynote talks from GloFAS and GFM users, a poster session, and an open space for lively conversations. Participants will have the opportunity to connect with people from the GloFAS and GFM communities to discuss their work and expand their network.
The preliminary agenda is available below.
!! Contribute to the agenda and share your experience!!
If you are interested in providing an IGNITE presentation (5 minutes, or more) /poster about a use case where you used/or are planning to use GloFAS or GFM, please send us a message via https://www.globalfloods.eu/contact-us/ by February 21st 13:00 UTC. We will collect all incoming expressions of interest and contact the presenters between February 19th and February 26th. Please note that the deadline for slides/posters submission is February 28th. Presenters will be contacted to verify their willingness to join a voluntary rehearsal session in the week of February 26th – March 1st.
!!! Register to the meeting!!
Please use this link to register: https://ecmwf.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_68lgAdp0TK--1604TF0kOw#/registration Registrations close on March 4th.
Did you miss the previous Annual Meetings? The summary and the presentations of the previous annual meetings are available here https://www.globalfloods.eu/get-involved/events/
For questions or technical difficulties in the registration process, please send us a message via https://www.globalfloods.eu/contact-us/
The CEMS GloFAS and GFM teams look forward to welcoming you to the 3rd CEMS Global Flood Forecasting and Monitoring Annual Meeting!
Draft Agenda
Day 1: 05-March-2024
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Time (UTC) |
Topic |
Presenter |
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13:00 – 13:05 |
Opening and welcome |
Peter Salamon (EC JRC) |
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13:05 – 13:20 |
A short intro to the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS) |
Stefania Grimaldi (EC JRC) |
|
13:20 – 13:40 |
Latest news and updates of the CEMS GloFAS |
Christel Prudhomme(CEMS COMP/ECMWF) |
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13:40 – 13:55 |
A short intro to the Global Flood Monitoring (GFM) of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS) |
Tobias Stachl (CEMS GFM/EODC) |
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13:55 – 14:15 |
Latest news and updates of the CEMS GFM product |
Tobias Stachl (CEMS GFM/EODC) |
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14:15 – 14:30 |
BREAK |
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14:30 – 15:20 |
Use cases and applications (IGNITE talks) |
Participants |
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15:20 – 15:40 |
Panel discussion |
CEMS GloFAS and CEMS GFM, Participants, Invited speakers |
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15:40-15:45 |
Pre-view of day 2 |
Peter Salamon (EC JRC) |
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15:45 – 15:50 |
Presentation of Gather.Town activities and transfer to Gather.Town |
Karen O’Regan (CEMS COMP/ECMWF) |
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15:50 – 16:30 |
Join us in Gather.Town! Poster session and open space for a lively discussion. |
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Day 2: 06-March-2024
|
Time (UTC) |
Topic |
Presenter |
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13:00 – 13:05 |
Welcome Day 2 and recap Day 1 |
Peter Salamon (EC JRC) |
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13:05-13:15 |
GloFAS and GFM annual users’ surveys: 2022 results and follow-up actions. |
Nina Bosshard (CEMS DISS/SMHI) Luca Molini (CEMS GFM/CIMA) |
|
13:15 – 13:30 |
Keynote 1 : The Africa Multi-Hazard Early Warning and Early Action System |
Lorenzo Alfieri (CIMA) |
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13:30– 13:45 |
Keynote 2: tbd |
tbd |
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13:45 – 14:00 |
Keynote 3: tbd |
tbd |
|
14:00 – 14:20 |
Monitoring and reporting floods worldwide: analytics about GloFAS forecasts |
Ilias Pechlivanidis (CEMS DISS/SMHI) |
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14:20 – 14:35 |
BREAK |
|
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14:35 – 15:10 |
Use cases and applications (IGNITE talks) |
Participants |
|
15:10 – 15:25 |
What is next for CEMS GloFAS and GFM |
Peter Salamon (EC JRC) |
|
15:25– 15:30 |
Closing of the meeting and transfer to Gather.Town |
Peter Salamon (EC JRC) |
|
15:30 – 16:30 |
Join us in Gather.Town! Poster session and open space for a lively discussion. |
|
Gather.Town Poster session and open space for a lively discussion.
A highly interactive space in which the participants will be able to browse through posters about GloFAS and GFM applications, meet the presenters of ignite talks and key-note talks, meet members of CEMS GloFAS and CEMS GFM, freely interact with other participants.
CEMS GloFAS and CEMS GFM team members will be available to discuss the following topics:
- GloFAS products and methods (CEMS COMP/ECMWF)
- GFM products and methods (CEMS GFM/CIMA)
- How can I access CEMS GloFAS data? (CEMS COMP/ECMWF)
- How can I access CEMS GFM data? (CEMS GFM/ EODC)
- Share your hydrological in-situ data with GloFAS! (CEMS HYDRO/GHENOVA DIGITAL)
- Open-source hydrological model LISFLOOD and high resolution GloFAS maps (EC JRC)
- Leave your feedback! (CEMS DISS/SMHI)
By Stefania Grimaldi Jan. 22, 2024, 6:37 p.m.