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Welcome!

Bienvenidos!

Bem Vindo!

Earth Observation Training, Education,

and Capacity Development Network

AMERICAS REGION COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

FLOODS WORKING GROUP

17 July 2024

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Today’s agenda

Time (UTC)	Agenda item	Presenter/moderator
16:00	Welcome	Álvaro Germán Soldano
16:05	Introductions	All participants
16:10	Spotlight presentation Early action in flood warning: experience from Peru	Dr Paul Block, University of Wisconsin College of Engineering
16:35	Demo of updated flood tools tracker	EOTEC DevNet Secretariat
16:45	Membership updates Share your news on training, tools, and other resources	Álvaro Germán Soldano All participants
16:55	Global leadership and Secretariat updates Flood tools tracker survey, June 18 drought webinar and other developments…	EOTEC DevNet Secretariat
17:05	Upcoming opportunities	Secretariat, participants
17:10	Next meeting, other next steps, and thanks	Álvaro Germán Soldano
17:15	Conclusion

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Spotlight presentation

Early action in flood warning: experience from Peru

Dr. Paul Block

University of Wisconsin College of Engineering

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Connecting Early-Actions with Sub-seasonal to Seasonal Forecasts to Advance Hydrologic Disaster Preparedness

Kylie Southard & Paul Block : University of Wisconsin-Madison

Benjamin Zaitchik: Johns Hopkins University

EOTEC DevNet Community of Practice May 2024

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Disasters…

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… and Preparedness

88% of disaster-related aid $ targets post-disaster response

Every $1 spent in preparedness ~ $3-$6 savings in response

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Anticipatory Actions

Long-lead (S2S)

Actions

EAP

Disaster

Floods, extreme precipitation

Droughts

Infectious disease

Triggers

(Forecasts)

Threshold

Probability of Exceedance

Early Actions (Protocols)

cash, hardening infrastructure
water supply/disinfection
mobile health units
training, etc.

Financing

Adaptive Planning

Vulnerability Assessments

Decision-making

Predict Localize

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Predict + Localize

Predictions inform Local conditions

What hazard, how severe, when, etc.

Local conditions inform Predictions

What are we trying to predict? Vulnerable to what?

How are predictions communicated? Tailored?

How can uptake be encouraged?

How can predictions be integrated into decisions?

Need social science.

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Red Cross Anticipatory Actions - 2023

Anticipation Hub

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Peru Precipitation and SoVI

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Piura, Peru

Geoservidor MINAM 2017; PISCO

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ENSO

IRI, Columbia University; Red Cross

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ENSO + Piura Precipitation

But why high precipitation/streamflow in non-El Niño years?

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ENSO + Piura Precipitation (high)

1983

1998

2008

2017

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Within-season Coastal SSTs (2008)

February

March

April

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Marañón River (tributary to Amazon)

Marañón River at San Regis MAM

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Anticipatory Action

Evaluate prediction model compared to existing approach

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Survey in Iquitos

How do decision-makers in Peru perceive flood-related risk and vulnerability?

How do these perceptions impact disaster preparedness and risk communication?

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State of Preparedness

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Risk Communication

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Utility of Preparedness

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Social Vulnerability

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Flood Tools Tracker�A sneak peek at improvements to the tracker

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Main Updates

New user-friendly interface with more images and tool descriptions
Updated classification of tools based on disaster risk response stages and temporal use
Ability for users to leave feedback on the tools they used
Ability to highlight resources on the home page

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How can thematic working group members help improve the tracker?

Volunteer as beta testers and offer feedback on the tracker
Review information on the tools you use for accuracy
Add new tools and capacity building resources
Spread the word about the tracker

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Member updates�What are you working on? Share updates on your activities…!

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Global and Secretariat updates

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Case studies and other info available at: https://community.wmo.int/en/governance/executive-council/executive-council/capacity-development-panel
Case study template here: https://filecloud.wmo.int/share/s/z9PRreJaQseA4YO7zBjpgQ
Framework approved by Congress-19 in June 2023

Currently being translated to all UN languages

WMO Capacity Development Framework

Opportunity to share case studies

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Establishment of Drought Working Groups�Lots of progress on formation of drought working groups

Reminder: Review/add resources to the drought tools matrix

Link here

Webinar with UNCCD and GWP

Planning for Drought +10

IDMP Annual Meeting June 25-26

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New feature on www.eotecdev.net�Photo of the week: Share your imagery!

**Upload your image to this form**

https://forms.gle/vBfSfN46wP7ND3936

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230+ online members and growing!

HOW TO JOIN

Sign up for an account - prompts in the top right corner of home page
Watch for an email to confirm your membership.
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Post a question, comment, or link in any of the groups or your own member feed

SEE YOU ONLINE!

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Upcoming opportunities

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Opportunities and resources

SAMPLE OF TRAINING AND CONFERENCES
W ebinar: Contributions of Indigenous People’s EO to Water Quality Monitoring, July 31, online.	AmeriGEO 2024, 26-30 August, Ecuador, in-person and online (registration open).
GPM 10-in-10 Webinar Series: Webinar 7: Data, August 1, online.	2024 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference, 30 Sept-4 Oct, in-person, Germany (registration open).
SPIE Optics + Photonics 2024, 18 - 22 August, San Diego, USA. Courses (registration open): Deep Learning and Its Applications in Image Processing Imaging Spectrometry	ISPRS/SELPER Brasil: SELPER training (Nov 2-3) and ISPRS Symposium (Nov 4-8), in person, Belem, Brazil (registration open).
Conferencia Panamericana de Meteorologia, 19-23 August, São Paulo, Brasil, in person	AGU24, 9-13 December, Washington, D.C., USA (hybrid; abstract submission deadline 31 July). XXV Brazilian Symposium on Geoinformatics (GEOINFO) - December, 2024. More info coming.
Centro de Difusão Internacional da Universidade de São Paulo (Spanish and Portuguese), in person, São Paulo, 20-23 August Satellite applications for Nowcasting 4th Course on Efficient Meteorological Communication Oscillation Patterns in Geospatial Climate Data: Using Python Scripts Introduction to R software for analysis of climatological data	LAGIRS (Latin American GRSS & ISPRS Remote Sensing Conference), 10-13 November, 2025, Foz do Iguaçu, Brasil.

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