MHEWS Concept - Reference Material (for ET-MIE)
- Resolution 15 (Cg-18) - Strengthening multi-hazard early warning services in areas prone to all flooding types and severe weather - Independent Review Reports (Part A): CIFDP Review Report; FFGS Review Report; and SWFDP Review Report - Consolidated Report (Part B): Concept for an integrated MHEWS for FFGS, CIFDP and SWFDP - List of Members of Expert Team on MHEWS Interoperable Environment (ET-MIE) with their expertise and affiliation with other SCs/ETs (as of September 2021) - Terms of Reference of ET-MIE (as of May 2021) |
ET-MIE Meeting Reports:
- Report of the ET-MIE-6 (ONLINE, 20 May 2022)
- Report of the ET-MIE-5 (ONLINE, 18 February 2022)
- Report of the ET-MIE-4 (ONLINE, 8 December 2021)
- Report of the ET-MIE-3 (ONLINE, 15-16 September 2021)
- Report of the ET-MIE-2 (ONLINE, 20 May 2021)
- Report of the First Meeting of ET-MIE (ONLINE, 23 November 2020)
CIFI related reference documents and material:
- WMO Competency Framework (including for Marine weather forecasters)
FFGS related reference documents and material:
- FFGS Independent Review Report (December 2018) (Part A)
- FFGS Global Workshop (Antalya, November 2019) - Final Proceedings
- FFGS Sustainability Strategy Draft Document (August 2020 version)
- Roles and Responsibilities of NMHSs in FFGS
- Roles and Responsibilities of Regional Centers in FFGS
- A brief example of Concept Note (FFGS for Solomon Islands and Vanuatu - August 2019)
- WMO website links for FFGS (WMO public website and old website)
- Integrated Riverine Flood Forecasting System - Dominican Republic (Presentation)
SWFP related reference documents and material:
- SWFDP Independent Review Report (November 2018) (Part A)
- Final Report of the last meeting of the Steering Group for SWFDP (Pretoria, October 2019)
- SWFDP overall plan (2010 version) guidebook (2016 version)
- SWFP related all meeting reports
- SWFP web link on WMO Community Platform
- WMO Competency Framework (including for operational meteorologists and PWS forecasters and advisers)
TCP related reference documents and material:
- Regional Tropical Cyclone Bodies
- Tropical Cyclone Operational Plans and Manuals
- Tropical Cyclone Forecaster Competencies
Additional reference material (best practices, presentations, articles, publications etc.):
- An Example of MHEWS interoperability - Dominican Republic (Presentation)
- The Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) (It has been fully operational as a Copernicus Emergency Management Service since April 2018)
- South-East European Multi-Hazard Early Warning Advisory System (SEE-MHEWS) (A WMO project funded by USAID/OFDA & WB/GFDRR)
- Multi-hazard Early Warning Systems - A Checklist (Outcomes of the first Multi-hazard Early Warning Conference (Cancún, May 2017))
- A Value Chain Approach to Optimising Early Warning Systems (draft article)
- WMO Guidelines Multi-hazard Impact-based Forecast and Warning Services (WMO-No. 1150, 2015)
- Manual for Operationalizing Impact-based Forecasting and Warning Services (IBFWS) (2021) (developed for Viet Nam but useful reference for other countries)
- Impact Forecasting to Support Emergency Management of Natural Hazards (2020) (An article published in Reviews of Geophysics 58(4))
- Guidance on Integrated Urban Hydrometeorological, Climate and Environmental Services (Volume I: Concept and Methodology) (WMO-No. 1234, 2019 edition)
- Forecast Verifications for the African SWFDPs (WMO-No. 1132, 2014)
- Manual on the Global Data-processing and Forecasting System (GDPFS) (WMO-No. 485, 2019 edition)
- Guidelines for Nowcasting Techniques (WMO-No. 1198, 2017 edition)