Towards A Global Flood & Flash Flood Early Warning Early Action System Driven by NASA Earth Observatory

Lead PI: Andrew J. Kruczkiewicz

Unit Affiliation: International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI)

Unit Affiliation: Center for Integrated Earth System Information (CIESIN)

December 2017 - December 2021
Inactive
South America ; Asia ; Ecuador, Bangladesh, eastern Africa
Project Type: Research

SPONSOR:

National Aeronautics & Space Administration-NASA

FUNDED AMOUNT:

$599,899

RESEARCH TEAM:

Agathe Bucherie, Carolynne Hultquist, Humberto Vergara, Natalia Horna, Fernanda Ayala, Juan Bazo, Lauren Mahoney

EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS:

University of Oklahoma NOAA Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies Ecuador Red Cross Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre Instituto Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología

KEYWORDS

flash flood early warning systems global hydrologic forecasts floods early warning early action geohazard disaster preparedness

THEMES

Modeling and Adapting to Future Climate Sustainable living Restless earth