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HRC sent out the latest issue of the Flash Flood Guidance Gazette to its nearly 500 subscribers on the 20th of August. This issue focuses on the “Women in the Forefront of Operational Meteorology and Hydrology” and is dedicated to those women who are involved with Flash Flood Guidance warnings and Impact-Based Forecasting in... Read More
The first Flash Flood Guidance System (FFGS) Global Workshop was held in Antalya, Turkey from 4-8 Nov 2019. The workshop was sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the U.S. Agency for International Development/ Office of the U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA), and was hosted by the Turkish State Meteorological Service (TSMS). The workshop... Read More
An initial training and coordination meeting was held in Pretoria, South Africa, (see picture) during the period 23-24 January 2020 with the goal to define the availability of real-time and historical radar precipitation data for their bias adjustment and incorporation into the Southern Africa Flash Flood Guidance System (SARFFGS). The meeting also served as the... Read More
HRC signed a contract on 24 October 2019 with the Department of Infrastructure, Ports and Energy of the Government of Saint Lucia to develop and implement the Saint Lucia Flash Flood Guidance system (SLFFGS) for the island. HRC will be working closely with the Saint Lucia Meteorological Services (SLMS) and the Water Resources Management Agency... Read More
The Hydrologic Research Center (HRC) conducted a 3-week training course on Radar Hydrology for participants from the Fiji Meteorological Service (FMS) from August 19 through September 6, 2019. The objectives of the training course were (a) to give technical background on weather radar systems and their use for precipitation estimation, (b) to provide practical, hands-on... Read More
HRC conducted a hands-on workshop to train agency forecasters and disaster managers on the interpretation of the products and the use of the interactive interface of the Urban Flash Flood Warning System (UFFWS). The workshop was held from 16-17 April 2019 at the AKOM (Disaster Coordination Center – Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality) Headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey. ... Read More
HRC participated in the initial planning meeting for the development and implementation of a flash flood guidance system for Fiji. The meeting was held at the Fiji Meteorological Service in Nadi, Fiji on the 12th and 13th of November 2018. In attendance were representatives of the Fiji Meteorological Service and Disaster Management Office as well as... Read More
HRC worked with the NWS to organize and participate in the Second Weather Ready Nations (WRNs) Steering Committee Meeting (SCM) held in Geneva, Switzerland. The goal of the meeting was to bring together professionals currently involved in a wide range of impact based forecasting (IBF) activities to share their knowledge and work towards a common... Read More
As part of its International Impact-based Forecasting and Warning Service program supporting the U.S. National Weather Service International Activities Office, HRC organized and participated in the initial Weather Ready Nations project workshop for Croatia. The workshop was held at the Zagreb Congress Center in Zagreb on 27-28 September 2018. In attendance were representatives of the DHMZ... Read More
In summer of 2018, following more than a decade of demonstration efforts in collaboration with Federal, State and Local Agencies in California, the Hydrologic Research Center (HRC) and the Georgia Water Resources Institute (GWRI) of Georgia Tech completed the operational implementation of the Integrated Forecast and Reservoir Management (INFORM) system at the California Department of... Read More