European Flood Awareness System (EFAS)

Disaster Risk Response Stage	Forecasting Response Risk
Category	Hybrid Tools
Input Network	GEO
Input Network Member	WGCapD
Provider Organization:	European Commission / Copernicus EMS
Point of Contact:	Peter Salamon
E-mail:
Source	https://www.efas.eu/
Geographic Domain	Regional
Geographic Product Locations	Europe
Geographic Product Locations - Detailed	Albania Andorra Austria Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czechia Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Ukraine
Producing Daily Global Coverage?	True
Globally Extensible	True
Product Delivery Latency	Near-real time, Forecasts are updated twice daily with a latency of approx. 11 hours
Data Type	Uses multiple weather forecasts (ECMWF, German Weather Service, COSMO-LEPS) as input
Associated Capacity Development Resources	EFAS Wiki
Product Format	WMS-T, netCDF
Archived	True
Tailored Service Available	True
License Type	None
Spatial Extent	European
Spatial Scale	5km
Caveats	Detailed skill assessment available on EFAS wiki
Frequency	forecasts updated twice daily
Overpass Latency	NA
Downlink Latency	NA
Processing Latency	NA
Impacted By Cloud Shadows	None
Impacted By Terrain Shadows	None
Status	Operational
Input By	Peter Salamon, European Commission , Joint Research Center
Notes	Data archive URLs: Past forecasts: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/efas-forecast?tab=overview Reforecasts: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/efas-reforecast?tab=overview Reanalysis: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/efas-historical?tab=overview