Early Action Protocol for Flash Floods
Description
The primary goal of the FLASH project is to improve the accuracy, timing, and specificity of flash flood warnings in the US, thus saving lives and protecting infrastructure
Disaster Risk Response Stage
Preparedness
Response
Response
Category
Hybrid Tools
Temporal Use
Current observation
Forecast
Input Network
CEOS
GEO
GEO
Input Network Member
NASA
Provider Organization
Columbia University, Red Cross
Point of Contact
Andrew Kruczkiewicz
E-mail
Source
Geographic Domain
Local
Regional
Regional
Geographic Product Locations
Unknown
Geographic Product Locations - Detailed
Producing Daily Global Coverage?
No
Globally Extensible
Yes
Product Delivery Latency
N/A
Data Type
Optical
Associated Capacity Development Resources
None
Product Format
N/A
Archived
No
Tailored Service Available
Yes
License Type
Unknown
Spatial Extent
60N-60S
Spatial Scale
5km / 1 km
Caveats
tailored for flash flood, however in some cases also potentially valuable for other flood types. Capable to be further tailored based on stakeholder interactions and needs.
Frequency
3 hour
Overpass Latency
N/A
Downlink Latency
N/A
Processing Latency
N/A
Impacted By Cloud Shadows
Unknown
Impacted By Terrain Shadows
Unknown
Status
Operational
Input By
John Murray, NASA Applied Sciences
Notes
The Early Action Protocol (EAP) for Flash Floods in Ecuador is a set of standard operating procedures for prioritizing when and where anticipatory action can be taken based on shifts in risk for flash floods. An important element of the EAP is the trigger model development - which we are finalizing under this project, using a NASA-funded enhancing of the University of Oklahoma's EF5 global flood model. Available at: floods.global
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