The following is a description of the pre-operational release of EFAS v5.2, which will be made available from 04 July 2024 in a test phase. EFAS v5.2 is expected to be launched operationally in August 2024. For an overview of other EFAS releases, please see: the EFAS versioning system.
To test the pre-operational EFAS v5.2, you must access the EFAS Stage Platform: https://stage.efas.eu/efas_frontend/#/home (check link!)
Summary
EFAS v5.2 introduces several minor changes to the system, including:
- EFAS probability updates: calculation for the revised EFAS notification criteria, revised layers Jesus Casado Rodriguez & Corentin Carton de Wiart link to new calculation page: placeholder - EFAS 5-year exceedance probability and placeholder - EFAS Flood Probability Persistence
- Notifications - updates from Conrad via Stefania Grimaldi. Adding notification preview url to the notification emails, - Dimitar Tasev
- FID now on rapid impact assessment layer? Dimitar Tasev
- Reporting point updates: label change, probability tables updates, updates to hydrographs, Juan Pereira Colonese & Corentin Carton de Wiart changes also need to be made in: placeholder - EFAS Reporting Points page.
- Stations metadata updates - Stations metadata have been updated to better align them with the hydrological data collected by EHDCC. Cinzia Mazzetti
Update flood protection dataset for the EFAS Rapid Risk Assessment, - Calum Baughcheck if only internal?- Major rivers layers Juliana Disperati / Dimitar Tasev to explain changes
- 'new' ftp process for EFAS? Arthur Ramos to confirm
This upgrade of EFAS has no impact on the EFAS modelling results.
Test phase → feedback to https://european-flood.emergency.copernicus.eu/en/form/feedback Karen O'Regan
Technical details Arthur Ramos
Pre-release date (available on stage platform) | 2024-06-24 |
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Release date | 2024-08-13 TBD |
In test suite | n/a |
EFAS internal number | 20 |
Archiving of data | ECFS, MARS, CDS |
Reference climatology (for thresholds/ anomalies) | 1992-01-01 to 2022-12-31 |
EFAS Historical | 1992-01-01 to near present |
Reforecasts | tbc |
Horizontal projection | EPSG4326 |
Horizontal resolution | 0.01667 x 0.01667° |
Temporal resolution | 6-hourly |