Workshop on the Strategy and Action plan of the WMO Flood Forecasting Initiative

Developed in 2003, the WMO Flood Forecasting Initiative (FFI) is based on the analysis of weaknesses of current forecasting systems and with a focus to enhance the ability of National Hydrological and Meteorological Services (NMHSs) to cooperate in an effective manner to provide improved flood forecasting services.

The Fifteenth Congress of WMO in 2007 had endorsed the “Strategy and Action Plan for the Enhancement of Cooperation between National Meteorological and National Hydrological Services for Improved Flood Forecasting”. Subsequently, in its Resolution 3, the Commission for Hydrology (CHy) during its thirteenth session in 2008 (CHy-XIII, 2008) decided “To supplement the Strategy and Action Plan on the Flood Forecasting Initiative with a detailed activity plan that will assist Members in establishing flood forecasting systems." The objective of this workshop has therefore been to develop an Activity Plan based on the Strategy and Action Plan of the WMO Flood Forecasting Initiative.

The principal result of the workshop has been the adoption of an Activity Plan, and the provision of guidance to implement the Activity Plan together with the consideration of potential pilot projects and the development of a framework to assess the efficiency of flood forecasting services.

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Presentations

	WMO Workshop on the Strategy and Action Plan of the WMO Flood Forecasting Initiative, Dra. Dora Goniadzki,INA, Argentina
	EFAS The European Flood Alert System
	Flood forecasting and Hydrometry in France, Caroline Wittwer, National Centre for Flood Forecasting SCHAPI, France
	Flood Forecasting Issues in Ghana, J. Wellens-Mensah, Ghana
	Flood Forecasting System for Changjiang River, Yan Huang, Bureau of Hydrology, Changjiang Water Resources Commission, China
	Flood Preparedness and Early Warning Project(FPEW-I), Flood Forecasting in EN Region, Nile Basin Initiatives (NBI), Easter Nile Technical Regional Office (ENTRO)
	Hydrologic Engineering Center, William Scharffenberg, US Army Corps of Engineers
	Introduction of the Workshop, WMO
	Working for a flood warning system in WMO RA IV, Eduardo Planos, Hydrological Adviser RA IV, Institute of Meteorology, Cuba
	Pilot projects for transferring knowledge and technology and strengthening international cooperation, Angel Luis Aldana Valverde, PROHIMET
	An overview on Flood forecasting, Sotharat Insawang, Thai Meteorological Department
	Key features of the SAP, WMO
	MHO-forecasters (meteorologists, hydrologists, oceanographers) work at the same division (forecasting division at SMHI).The forecasting division gets IT-support from SMHI's own IT-division. SMHI
	Forecasting in the USA, United States of America