REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

SLOVENIAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY

“From monitoring to end users” - introduction

Dr. Andreja Sušnik

Joint DMCSEE/GWP CEE capacity building training Budapest, October 3, 2014

Meteorological Office Agrometeorological Dpt

Drought watch – cornerstone of drought management

Ways from monitoring to management

Preparation of national and regional action plans

Agenda and workflow

How to communicate with end users?

Drought reality 2000–2012,

2013

(EEA ..., 2012)

Europe has been affected by several major droughts in recent decades.

Severity and frequency of droughts appear to have increased in parts of

Europe, in particular in southern and south-eastern Europe.

Topic 1 / Drought management platforms – DMCs

Bureau of Meteorology (BOM): http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/drought/ - Australia,

IGAD clima prediction and application center (ICPAC): http://www.icpac.net/ - Africa,

Global Drought Monitor (GDM): http://drought.mssl.ucl.ac.uk - UK,

SPEI Global Drought Monitor: http://sac.csic.es/spei/map/maps.html - South America,

Chile drought monitor: http://sac.csic.es/spei/map/maps.html - Chile,

The National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) and National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC): http://drought.unl.edu/ - USA,

European Drought Observatory (EDO): http://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ –Europe,

Drought Management Centre for Southeastern Europe (DMCSEE): http://www.dmcsee.org/ – South-East Europe,

Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP):

http://www.droughtmanagement.info/

African Drought Observatory (ADO, http://edo.jrc.ec.ecuropa.eu/ado/ado.html). (Source: Pulwarty, 2013)

Why drought centers and their available

products? continental and regional overview of information on drought; visualization and analysis; seamless access to regional and national drought information; intensely uses modelling systems for drought status assessment; many meteorological variables are very difficult to accurately

simulate drought using only data available in global exchange; thus country drought products prepared from local measurements

are crucial for drought status assessments; operational process (new products and methodolgy - remote

sensing, consensus on common approaches).

www.dmcsee.org

WMO FP

UNCCD FP

Drought researcher

WMO/GWP Integrated Drought Management Programme in CEE (IDMP) – platform & good practice compendium, 2013-

Integration of national data into DMCSEE portal

Better quality of products and composites, calculated automatically

Importance of national focal points and data providers

Drought watch – first step in the process Situation of Combined Drought Indicator in Europe – CDI, September 2014, northern Europe, Spain http://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu

Drought situation, September 30, 2014

California drought 2011-2014 Folsom Lake, north of Sacramento, California

Drought monitors and their available products…new possibilities

product\ monitor

BOM Australia

ICPAC Africa

GDM UK

South America

Chile NDMC USA

EDO Europe

DMCSEE South-East Europe

meteorological parameters

complex indicators

SPI, drought index

SPI, PDSI SPEI SPI, CDI SPI, CMI, PDSI

SPI, CDI SPI

NWP products

remote sensing data

NDVI fAPAR, NDVI, NDWI

VegDRI, NDVI

fAPAR, NDWI

field reports

impact data

bulletins

Drought monitor – meteorological drought

REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

SLOVENIAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY From one weather extreme to another

Drought monitor – meteorological drought/wetness

SE Europe flooding, May 2014

Topic 2/ Steps of drought management

drought mitigation strategy based on drought management platform (risk management system),

infrastructure enables exchange of data, relevant for drought analysis,

continuous automated sensing, monitoring and decision support for drought risk management operations and actions.

National and regional drought plans

Topic 3/ Good practices of drought management and drought policy (UNCCD regional DM, countries NAPs – UK, Romania, Greece

(Source: Stacey Usher, 2014)

policy

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