Joint GWP CEE/DMCSEE training: From monitoring to end users - introduction by Andrea Sušnik

1. 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

2. 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?

3. 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.

4. 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)

5. 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).

6. www.dmcsee.org
WMO FP
UNCCD FP
Drought researcher

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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
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complex indicators
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SPI, drought index
SPI, PDSI
SPEI
SPI, CDI
SPI, CMI, PDSI
SPI, CDI
SPI
NWP products
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remote sensing data
NDVI
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fAPAR, NDVI, NDWI
VegDRI, NDVI
fAPAR, NDWI
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field reports
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impact data
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bulletins
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10. Drought monitor – meteorological drought

11. REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
FroSLmOVENIAN EoNVIRnONMEeNT A GEwNCY eather extreme to another

12. Drought monitor – meteorological drought/wetness
SE Europe flooding, May 2014

13. 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

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

15. (Source: Stacey Usher, 2014)
policy
endusers
monitoring