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Mediterranean and pan-European forecast and Early Warning System against natural hazards

Descripción del proyecto

Tecnologías innovadoras de sistemas de alerta temprana para Europa y África

Los peligros naturales, incluidos los fenómenos meteorológicos extremos, son cada vez más frecuentes, intensos y duraderos debido al cambio climático. Este tipo de sucesos sobrecargan los limitados recursos y ponen en riesgo vidas humanas, sobre todo en regiones que están experimentando un rápido calentamiento. El proyecto MEDEWSA, financiado con fondos europeos, tiene por objeto mejorar los sistemas de previsión de impactos y alerta temprana en la región euromediterránea-africana mediante el empleo de herramientas novedosas como, por ejemplo, la inteligencia artificial. En este proyecto, coordinado por la Organización Meteorológica Mundial, se crearán cuatro replicas (ocho sitios de prueba), cada una con un historial de haber sufrido el efecto de peligros naturales o fenómenos meteorológicos extremos. El papel central de MEDEWSA en la iniciativa de las Naciones Unidas «Alertas tempranas para todos», para garantizar que, para finales de 2027, todo el mundo esté protegido de fenómenos meteorológicos, hídricos o climáticos peligrosos mediante sistemas de alerta temprana, favorecerá el alcance y repercusión de la misma.

Objetivo

"Natural hazards, such as extreme weather events, are exacerbated by climate change. As a result, emergency responses are becoming more protracted, expensive, frequent, and stretching limited available resources. This is especially apparent in rapidly warming regions. MedEWSa addresses these challenges by providing novel solutions to ensure timely, precise, and actionable impact and finance forecasting, and early warning systems (EWS) that support the rapid deployment of first responders to vulnerable areas. Specifically, MedEWSa will deliver a sophisticated, comprehensive, and innovative pan-European–Mediterranean–African solution comprising a range of complementary services. Building on existing tools MedEWSa will develop a fully integrated impact-based multi-hazard EWS. This call contained five expected outcomes, all of which will be specifically addressed by MedEWSa. Led by WMO, MedEWSa will be an exemplar of the UN Secretary General’s March 2022 call to ensure that everyone on Earth is protected from extreme weather and climate-related hazards by EWS within the next five years.
Through eight carefully selected pilot sites (areas in Europe, the southern Mediterranean, and Africa with a history of being impacted by natural hazards and extreme events with cascading effects), four twins will be created:
● Twin #1: Greece (Attica) – Ethiopia (National Parks): wildfires and extreme weather events (droughts, wind)
● Twin #2: Italy (Venice) – Egypt (Alexandria / Nile Delta): coastal floods and storm surges
● Twin #3: Slovakia (Kosice) – Georgia (Tbilisi): floods and landslides
● Twin #4: Spain (Catalonia) – Sweden (countrywide): heatwaves, droughts and wildfires.
The twins will bridge areas with different climatic/physiographic conditions, yet subject to similar hazards, and are well positioned to deliver long-term bi-directional knowledge transfer. They will demonstrate the transferability and versatility of the tools developed in MedEWSa.
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Coordinador

WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 579 000,00
Dirección
AVENUE DE LA PAIX 7 BIS
1202 GENEVA 2
Suiza

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Región
Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Région lémanique Genève
Tipo de actividad
Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
Enlaces
Coste total
€ 579 000,00

Participantes (27)

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