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GloFAS and EFAS have so-called fixed reporting points, which are used to show the forecast information regardless of the predicted conditions (CEMS-Flood diagnostic and web reporting points) and always appear as a grey rectangle. These points are not defined everywhere and therefore some of the basins in Figure 1a and 1b do not have representation, where the details of the forecast signal could be checked in a pop-out window (after clicking). Such non-represented basins appear mainly globally, lot of them in Africa and Asia, but also some in other continents. However, even in EFAS there are some non-represented basins, one or two in Italy and more in the eastern areas in Russia or the basins in Africa.
To allow at least a basic representation to all of the basins, a representative station list was defined. This list includes . To allow the users to easily distinguish these from the grey rectangle fixed points, they are plotted as black dots. The basin-representative points include one single point for each basin. These representative points are the largest upstream are points, either the outlet point of the single river system in the basin, or the largest of the river catchments in the basin. This latter case happens in coastal areas, where it was not meaningful to separate out all the larger catchments, as that would have resulted in very small basins.
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