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Improvement of early warning by integration of warning and forecasting services
Ivan Obrusnik, Marián Wolek, Jan Kubát
Abstract: The integrated warning and forecasting service of the CHMI is based on the system of regional branch forecasting offices connected via a network with the central forecasting office in Prague. The meteorological part of forecasting offices utilises all modern means, like numerical weather models, radars, satellite images and observation data to create various types of meteorological forecasts which differ by time interval of predictions, the area of forecast etc. The integrated warning and forecast system in the CHMI has undergone a critical examination since the 1997 catastrophic flooding in the Czech Republic and neighbouring central European countries. |