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:

- One stop shop for all CIFI / CIFDP related material and documents including CIFDP Independent Review Report (October 2018) (Part A), Implementation Plan (2017 version), CIFDP brochure (4-pager), meeting reports and articles etc. 

- Guidelines on Implementation of a Coastal Inundation Forecasting–Early Warning System (CIF-EWS) (WMO-No. 1293) (2022)

- 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)