| The goal of this project is to design and implement a regional system for flash flood guidance (FFG) over the countries of Central America with 100-300 km2 spatial resolution and 1-12 hour temporal resolution. Flash flood guidance is the volume of rainfall accumulated over a given small watershed for a given time period that is just enough to cause bankfull flow in the draining stream at the outlet of the watershed. The guidance values will be made available to national meteorological and hydrological agencies and disaster preparedness response agencies in the region in support of their flood warning and response missions. The regional system will cover the areas of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. |
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FUNDING:
US NOAA National Weather Service
US NOAA Office of Global Programs
USAID
HRC
DATA:
UK University of East Anglia (0.5o Precipitation and Temperature Data)
US NOAA-NWS International Activities Office (Local Precipitation, Temperature and Flow Data)
US Geological Survey (Digital Terrain and Stream Data)
Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations (Soil Characteristic Data)
University of Maryland, Global Land Cover Facility (Digital Vegetation Cover Data)HRC CONTRIBUTORS:
Theresa M. Carpenter HRC Hydrologic Engineer Konstantine P. Georgakakos HRC and UCSD Senior Research Hydrologist Nicholas E. Graham HRC and UCSD Senior Climate Scientist Jason A. Sperfslage HRC Computer Scientist
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| The regional operational flash flood guidance activity in
Central America is a Hydrologic Research Center science and technology
transfer project. HRC Staff in close collaboration with US Federal
Government Agencies (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and
US Agency for International Development), regional Agencies (CRRH), and
within-country Agencies are using basic science results together with
engineering methods of application and socioeconomic principles to develop
a regional flash-flood warning system for all seven Central American
countries. |
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last updated: 01/08/2003
