The 4th Annual workshop of European Flood Alert System (EFAS) was held on 29 and 30 January at ECMWF. The workshop participants came from 24 national and regional water authorities across Europe.
A total of 43 participants were informed by the EFAS team about the progress achieved during 2008 in terms of early warnings and system development:
- the development of new collection systems for hydrological and meteorological data
- the benefits of including COSMO-LEPS data
- a number of publications on the EFAS system, case studies and research have been published or are in review in 2008. A full list of these is available from the EFAS webpages
- new products have been reviewed by the EFAS partners
The second day was dedicated to training on probabilistic products and lessons learned from national EPS based flood forecasting systems. Joint lectures have been given by ECMWF, partners and EFAS staff.
Presentations will be available shortly on the ECMWF websites.