Early Warning Systems for Natural Disaster Reduction

1. Aspects of Disaster Management, Emergency and Social Response with Respect to Early Warnings

   1. Benefits of Early Warning from the Viewpoint of the Insurance Industry

      • Wolfgang Kron, Anselm Smolka, Gerhard Berz

      Pages 95-102

   2. Natural Risks in Albania and the Role of Related Warning Systems

      • M. Hoti, S. Axhemi

      Pages 103-105

   3. Interaction and Cooperation Between Russia and NIS in the Area of Preventing Emergency Situations of Technogenic and Natural Character

      • N. Makhutov, V. Zatsarinnyi

      Pages 107-112

   4. Gender, Age and Social Class in Psychological Work in Disaster Situations

      • José Manuel Salas Calvo

      Pages 113-117

   5. Psychological Interventions in Disaster Situations

      • Lorena Sáenz Segreda

      Pages 119-124

2. Early Warning Systems for Hydrometeorological Hazards

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. The Role of the WMO World Weather Watch System in Mitigating Hydro-Meteorological Disasters

      • Stefan Mildner

      Pages 127-134

   3. Meteorological and Hydrological Early Warning Systems

      • John W. Zillman

      Pages 135-164

3. Early Warning Systems for Tropical Storms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. Track Forecast Guidance Improvements for Early Warnings of Tropical Cyclones

      • Russell L. Elsberry

      Pages 167-183

   3. The Tropical Cyclone Warning System in the Southwest Pacific

      • Vikash Prasad, Neville Louis Koop

      Pages 185-189

   4. Early Warning System for Tropical Storms in India

      • Sewa Ram Kalsi

      Pages 191-198

   5. Success and Failure of Early Warning Systems: A Case Study of the Gujarat Cyclone of June, 1998

      • Sewa Ram Kalsi, Manu Gupta

      Pages 199-202

   6. From Good TC Track Forecasts Towards Good Early Warning of Intensity Changes

      • James Lighthill

      Pages 203-207

   7. Improving the Tropical Cyclone Warning System and its Effective Dissemination in Mauritius

      • Ranjitrai R. Vaghjee, M. Lee Man Yan

      Pages 209-211

4. Early Warning Systems for Floods

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213

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   2. Real-Time Flood Forecasting: Problems, Possibilities and Proposed Solutions

      • Ezio Todini

      Pages 215-239

   3. Satellite Monitoring of Floods as a Part of the Early Warning System

      • Vladimir Usachev, V. Asmus, A. Volkov, V. Prokaheva

      Pages 241-245

   4. Snowmelt Forecasting as a Contribution to Operational Flood Warning: A System Integrating Remote Sensing Data and Meteorological Model Output

      • Stefan Voigt, Hannes Kleindienst, Michael F. Baumgartner

      Pages 247-252

   5. Short-Time Flood Forecast Methodology Using a Hydro-Meteorological Risk Concept for Flood Plains

      • Boris I. Gartsman, Mark S. Karasyov

      Pages 253-257

This volume is the result of the International IDNDR-Conference on Early Warning Systems for the Reduction of Natural Disasters, held at the Geo­ ForschungsZentrum in Potsdam, Germany from 7-11 September 1998. En­ dorsed by the United Nations International Decade for Natural Disasters Reduc­ tion which had been established by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1989, it was jointly organised by the GeoForschungsZentrum Pots­ dam and the German IDNDR-Committee. The event brought together 370 scientists, public officials, and representatives of the United Nations system, non-governmental and international organisations and diverse professional, commercial, and civic individuals from 86 countries. Together they comprised a wide and multidisciplinary range of experience, as both providers and users of early warning and preparedness information related to natural disasters. The Potsdam Early Warning Conference represented the first major thematic com­ ponent of IDNDR's concluding evaluation. It provides recommendations to en­ sure disaster reduction into the 21st Century. The conference dealt with an essential goal of the decade, expressed as a ma­ jor priority of the Decade's Scientific and Technical Committee. It was included in the Plan of Action adopted at the 1994 World Conference on Natural Disas­ ter Reduction in Yokohama, Japan, and was the subject of three subsequent UN General Assembly resolutions on the improved effectiveness of early warning between 1994 and 1997. The German Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr.

• Natural Disaster Mitigation
• Natural Hazard
• Storm
• Weather
• satellite
• data structures

• GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), Potsdam, Germany

  Jochen Zschau, Andreas Küppers

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