Climatologically based warning system against meteorological hazards and weather extremes: the example for Poland

Z. Ustrnul (), A. Wypych (), E. Henek, M. Maciejewski and B. Bochenek

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2015, vol. 77, issue 3, 1729 pages

Abstract: This work presents a detailed scientific concept of an operational warning system concerning weather hazards, which is a component of the IT System for Country’s Protection against extreme hazards currently under development in Poland. The system displays eight weather hazards that prevail in Poland (air temperature extremes, heavy rainfall, strong wind, intensive snowfall, fog, glaze, rime, and thunderstorms with hail), which are presented on the maps. The information will also be made available to the public in the form of warnings sent automatically via the Internet or text messages. The weather hazard maps consist of two highly complementary components. The first contains maps of areas vulnerable to the hazards’ occurrence (climatological maps). These are based on observational and measurement data covering the period of 1951/1966–2010. The second component consists of operational maps based on current weather conditions, including primarily predictive data provided by the mesoscale numerical weather prediction model ALADIN (warning maps). The climatological information has been applied to the operational maps for several extremes not directly predicted by the ALADIN model. Copyright The Author(s) 2015

Keywords: Meteorological hazards; Weather extremes; Warning system; Climatic maps; Poland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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