The European Floods Portal brings together information on river floods and flood risk in Europe, resulting from ongoing research within the “Floods” Action at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, as well as from public available information from EU countries.

Ongoing floods

Based on a close collaboration with European Hydrological Services and the Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC) in Koblenz, Germany, an overview of the current floods in Europe is made through the European Terrestrial Network for River Discharge (ETN-R)
The map is based on near-realtime river measurements, automatically transfered by the National Hydrological Centres, via the GRDC, to the JRC.
The map shows the locations, where river levels exceed critical thresholds.

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EFAS flood forecasts

The European Floods Alert System (EFAS) is an early flood warning system complimentary to national and regional systems. It provides the national institutes and the European Commission with information on possible river flooding to occur within the next 3 or more days.
Since flood warning is a Member State responsibility, only archived flood warnings can be made publically available.
The realtime warnings are made available to the national partner institutes only.

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Last modified

EFAS documents - EFAS partners Updated on Wednesday, 08 February 2012     EFAS user information interface Updated on Monday, 06 February 2012 The European Flood Alert System provides probabilistic flood alert information more than 48 hours in advance to National Authorities. It currently... Read more... Publications - Floods & Climate change effects on hydrology - Papers and Conferences Updated on Friday, 02 December 2011 Not all documents have an electronic copy available. In these cases you must obtain a copy using the reference provided.   Publications by year: ... Read more... Team - Team Updated on Thursday, 01 December 2011 Ad de Roo is Action Leader of the Weather Driven Natural Hazards activity on floods. He is a senior scientist with a PhD in Physical Geography on... Read more... EFAS documents - EFAS bulletins Updated on Thursday, 01 December 2011 The EFAS bulletins are distributed every 2 months to inform the project partners, data providers, and receiving Water Authorities about recent EFAS... Read more...

Current news on Floods (In preparation)

A selection of news from the press on floods in Europe is presented here, which is updated daily.
News can be browsed for specific countries selected by the user from the news map.
The news is extracted from the Internet using JRC's Media Monitoring software EMM

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