The RainBO Platform for Enhancing Urban Resilience to Floods: An Efficient Tool for Planning and Emergency Phases
| Autor: | Rita Mangiaracina, Sergio Castellari, Paolo Leoni, Gianluca Mazzini, Stefania Nanni, Giulia Villani, Fausto Tomei, Marco Folegani, Stefania Pasetti, Alberto Agnetti, L. Botarelli |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Atmospheric Science
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences 0207 environmental engineering Vulnerability 02 engineering and technology 01 natural sciences vulnerability simulations Flash flood microwave links 020701 environmental engineering Resilience (network) CML rainfall estimates 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Flood myth Warning system business.industry sensible targets Environmental resource management Ambientale web-based platform flood risk maps Preparedness Early warning system Environmental science crowdsourcing Urban resilience business web-based platform early warning system vulnerability simulations flood risk maps rainfall estimates microwave links CML crowdsourcing sensible targets early warning system |
| Zdroj: | Climate Volume 7 Issue 12 |
| ISSN: | 2225-1154 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/cli7120145 |
| Popis: | Many urban areas face an increasing flood risk, which includes the risk of flash floods. Increasing extreme precipitation events will likely lead to greater human and economic losses unless reliable and efficient early warning systems (EWS) along with other adaptation actions are put in place in urban areas. The challenge is in the integration and analysis in time and space of the environmental, meteorological, and territorial data from multiple sources needed to build up EWS able to provide efficient contribution to increase the resilience of vulnerable and exposed urban communities to flooding. Efficient EWS contribute to the preparedness phase of the disaster cycle but could also be relevant in the planning of the emergency phase. The RainBO Life project addressed this matter, focusing on the improvement of knowledge, methods, and tools for the monitoring and forecast of extreme precipitation events and the assessment of the associated flood risk for small and medium watercourses in urban areas. To put this into practice, RainBO developed a webGIS platform, which contributes to the &ldquo planning&rdquo of the management of river flood events through the use of detailed data and flood risk/vulnerability maps, and the &ldquo event management&rdquo with real-time monitoring/forecast of the events through the collection of observed data from real sensors, estimated/forecasted data from hydrologic models as well as qualitative data collected through a crowdsourcing app. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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