Radar-based rainfall nowcasting for flash flood hazard assessment: recent results at regional and Continental scales
- Centre de Recerca Aplicada en Hidrometeorologia, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Radar rainfall estimates and nowcasts have been used in Catalonia (NE Spain) for real-time flash flood hazard nowcasting based on the basin-aggregated rainfall for several years. This approach has been further developed within the European Projects ERICHA (www.ericha.eu) and ANYWHERE (www.anywhere-h2020.eu), where it has been demonstrated to monitor flash floods in real time in several locations and at different spatial scales (from regional to Continental coverage).
The work summarizes the main results of the recent projects, analysing the performance of the flash flood nowcasting system. The results obtained on recent events show the main advantages and some of the limitations of the system.
How to cite: Berenguer, M., Park, S., and Sempere-Torres, D.: Radar-based rainfall nowcasting for flash flood hazard assessment: recent results at regional and Continental scales, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-20206, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-20206, 2020.