The European Flood Awareness System has a wide product portfolio covering the forecast of large-scale riverine floods as well as flash floods, computing hazard as well as impact predictions, for the latter considering location specific vulnerability data. At the same time, EFAS monitors national hydrological situation across Europe and maps locations where the national/regional threshold levels have been exceeded. This is further completed through the embedding of the GFM (Global Flood Monitoring), which maps in an automatic manner floods in near real-time and computes associated impact estimations.
EFAS product portfolio (main products)
EFAS Products derive from flood forecast simulations. Users receive products as a set of easily readable maps aimed at offering users a fast and dynamic situational awareness about possible flood risks. Some more information on the four main product categories:
EFAS Products are accessible through the EFAS-IS (www.efas.eu), but also via web services and direct download. All real-time EFAS forecasts and products are restricted and only accessible to “EFAS partners” (see Section “EFAS user community”), to respect the Member States exclusive mandate for issuing flood warnings. All other EFAS products, such as the initial conditions, the national and satellite-based flood monitoring, the seasonal and sub-seasonal forecasts are publically available in real-time, and even the restricted EFAS real-time forecasts are released publically after an embargo of 30 days.
More information on the various EFAS product lines can be found on the EFAS website:
Whereas a technical documentation of each EFAS layer is available in the EFAS wiki: