InPRHA's research goals and objectives have been compiled into Working Packages (WPs) to allocate and distribute the work to guarantee a successful completion of the project key objectives.
The project team contributes social and physical science expertise for all work packages. The packages contribute logically one toward the next but allow for synchronous work to be completed in each.
The intended Legacy Impact is to advance research and knowledge in the development of multi-hazard forecasting systems for early flood warning (ranging from minuets to days). These systems integrate hydrology and meteorology while incorporating social science approaches to identify user needs for data delivery, information dissemination and communication.
WP DEFINE
Define the problem of integration across the flood warning value chain
Key Activities:
- Gather existing case studies across disciplines and communities through meta-studies, surveys, and workshops.
- Use collected data to explore and define important scientific questions, as well as understand the current state-of-the-art, challenges, and opportunities in the integration of different knowledge systems for early actions.
Key Milestones:
- Mapping, inventory and needs assessment of integration
- Characterizing the complexities, enablers and barriers to integrations
- Evaluating effectiveness of integration
- Formulating integration strategies and guidance for experiments
WP CONSTRUCT
Construct and collect experiments that integrate meteorology, hydrology and social sciences for effective warning
Key Activities:
- Design a catalogue of experiments based on findings from WP: DEFINE, which focuses on the integration of methods, knowledges, and approaches from different research disciplines and knowledge systems.
- Conduct experiments that address compound and cascading hazards, with an emphasis on local vulnerability and the impacts of climate change.
- Develop a database or web-based repository of experiments that allows the community to replicate or modify experiments, case studies, and social science related data beyond the project’s lifespan.
Key Milestones:
- Designing experimental protocol
- Collecting protocol and test-beds
- Creating searchable database
WP EXPERIMENT
In-depth analysis of case studies and experiments towards integration of predictions for early actions
Key Activities:
- Generate and share new findings and insights from emerging case studies,
and experiments addressing physical and social scientific questions about the integration of predictions into early actions along the information value chain. - Develop prototypes of operational forecast products or services that demonstrate the direct application InPRHA’s operations and services.
- Communicate and deliver forecasts, including issues related to audience and users, cultural factors, capacity for messaging and dissemination across communities, as well as factors including product design, behaviorial response and
risk communication barriers and strategies.
Key Milestones:
- Generating experiments, test-beds and case studies based on InPRHA’s proposed key scientific questions
- In-depth analysis of experiments and test-beds, knowledge co-production
- Designing integration framework and guidance tools
WP ENGAGE
Community engagement and co-production to foster knowledge exchange and outreach
Key Activities:
- Coordinate the first three work packages
- Engage and co-produce the exchange of knowledge with the WMO, internationals and national initiatives, and end-user communities.
Key Milestones:
- Community co-production workshops and special conference sessions
- Exchanging knowledge
- Empowering: Educational and capacity development pilot
- Coordination: Project reporting, monitoring and evaluation
DISCLAIMER:
The Weather Program Office (WPO) serves as the International Coordination Office for the Integrated Prediction of Precipitation and Hydrology for Early Actions (InPRHA) effort. As part of this initiative, WPO is vetting and sharing hydrology information from laboratories around the world. While we aim to provide accurate, timely, and reliable data, we do not guarantee the completeness, accuracy, or currency of the information presented. The information shared on this site is intended for informational purposes only, and users should verify any data through the relevant authoritative sources or official channels. The views and opinions expressed here may not necessarily reflect those of WPO or its affiliated organizations.