RISK AWARE
RISK-Advanced Weather forecasting system to Advice on Risk Events and manage-ment
Basic information
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Brief description of the consultancy firmMeteorological hazards, especially flooding, cause the loss of lives and the destruction building and infrastructure. This demands for improving forecasts and timely warnings of such hazards in order to protect lives and properties. The project general objectives are the prevention of geo-hydrological natural disaster at regional, national and trans-national level forced by meteorological situation and the design and implementation of regional, national and trans-national programmes for geo-hydrological hazards assessment and risk management. The projects 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. The goal of RISK AWARE 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 hydro geological conditions.
- Planned start of the project 01.05.2006 Expected end of project 30.04.2008
- Duration 23 (Month(s) )
Budget
- Program Total Budget 2801420 Project EU-Funding 1451069 Percent: 52
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