Advanced Tools for pro-Active Management of Impacts and Risks Induced by Convective Weather, Heavy Rain and Flash floods in Europe (TAMIR)
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The TAMIR project (project ID: 874435) was a European Commission Civil Protection Preparedness project that ran from February 2020 to September 2022, it aimed to develop forecast products which could inform about the potential impacts resulting from flash flood hazards. Despite recent progress in seamless probabilistic multi-source hazard forecasting induced by heavy rainfall making it possible to produce predications from the nowcast to short-medium ranges (i.e. from several minute out to 5 days), Civil Protection agencies still face multiple challenges hampering their decisions. The TAMIR project aimed to help address the three main challenges facing Civil Protection agencies:
- High false alarm rates
- Absence of multi-hazard forecasts (e.g. heavy rainfall, flood, lightning) and their simultaneous risk assessment
- Difficulty translating hazard forecasts into impact-based decisions
This was done using innovative science to create several products which have now been integrated into the EFAS platform. This supports pro-active emergency management at different scales, and by integrating them into the EFAS operational platform, allows for effective integration into existing Civil Protection systems.