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During a mission to Europe in July, researchers from the Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais (CEMADEN) [Brazilian National Centre for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disaster], which is part of the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovação e Comunicações (MCTIC) [Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications] participated in the annual conference of the Global Flood Partnership (GFP), held in the Joint Research Center of the European Commission (JRC – EC), in Ispra, Italy.
The mission was part of the European Union-Brazil Sector Dialogues Support Project, an initiative of the European Union Delegation to Brazil (DELBRA) and the Ministério do Planejamento, Desenvolvimento e Gestão (MP) [Ministry of Planning, Development and Management].
Meteorologist Christopher Cunningham, research hydrologist Conrado Rudorff, and technologist from the Situation Room Tiago Bernardes, a hydrologist and specialist in natural disasters, participated in the mission.
The goal of the GFP is to bring together efforts for the development of infrastructure and satellite-based monitoring systems, hydrological modeling and impact analysis, to improve forecasting and management of impacts caused by flooding at a global level. During the event, Brazilian technicians presented the research project “GloFAS, a tool for forecasting flooding in Amazon Basin municipalities”, a scientific paper developed by CEMADEN, in partnership with European researchers.
In order to learn about operations involving natural disaster risk management, the team also visited the European Crisis Management Laboratory (ECML) of the Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC) and the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS), both in Italy.
According to Conrado Rudorff, “the institutes that comprise the Research Center (JRC), have a fundamental role to play in terms of producing hydrometeorological information to support the European Comission in making decisions regarding natural disaster management and the impacts of climate changes”.
Mission to Italy
In April, another mission was also carried out in Italy. At the time, researchers had already discussed forecast studies of flood events and drought, as well as impact assessment, considering the vulnerability aspects, which make up the flood warning system.
Also according Rudorff, Brazil offers good characteristics in terms of hydrogeography, availability of data and research groups to assist in the validation of global hydrologic models and in the development of flood impact analysis methods.
A technical visit by researcher André Paquier, Head of the Research Unit at IRSTEA (National Research Institute of Science and Technology), in February, and a mission to JRC, last year, complete the calendar of activities of the “Brazil-Europe collaboration in Natural Disasters” program.
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