MedEWSa – Developing early warnings for natural hazards in the Mediterranean and Pan-Europe
MedEWSa stands for MEDiterranean and pan-European forecast and Early Warning System Against natural hazards. The project is funded by Horizon Europe, has a consortium of about 30 partners, and aims to strengthen the capacity against climate related risks for first responders and risk management board.
The project develops a decision support and dissemination system (DSDS), explores innovative methods for multihazard forecasting, works with risk transfer solutions, and offers capacity building activities.
Read more on MedEWSa’s official project website External link.
SMHI’s hydrological research unit are leading work package three: Innovative multi-hazard forecasts and impact assessment services. This work package explores multi-hazard events including drought, floods, forest fires, downpours and heat waves.
At SMHI we particularly work with the transition between low-flow and high-flow, and meteorological and hydrological droughts, floods, extreme rainfall and heatwaves on the European scale. We develop a Pan-European impact-based multi-hazard early warning system to assess risk level that society should deal with.
Additionally, SMHI’s weather services collaborate with partners in Catalonia, Spain, addressing forest fire ignition and mitigation, investigating various approaches to enhance predictability.
