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Flood Links

• California flood information

• Flood stories from around the world.  Stories from the world's folklore

• Dartmouth flood observatory  This Web site is a research tool for detection, mapping, measurement, and analysis of extreme flood events world-wide using satellite remote sensing. We provide comprehensive catalogs of large river floods, and are developing methods for obtaining globally-consistent measurements of such events.

• National Center for Environmental Health  A Prevention Guide to Promote Your Personal Health and Safety from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• Australian Weather Flood Information from the Bureau of Meteorology

• Stream Gaging and Flood Forecasting A Partnership of the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Weather Service

• American Red Cross Disaster Services "Each year, the American Red Cross responds immediately to more than 60,000 disasters, including house or apartment fires (the majority of disaster responses), hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, hazardous materials spills, transportation accidents, explosions, and other natural and man-made disasters.

UK Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food - Flood and coastal defence.  "MAFF has policy responsibility for flood and coastal defence in England and administers the legislation which enables such works to be carried out."

 

• Report on Early Warning for Hydrometeorological Hazards from the World Meteorological Organization

• ALERT Flood Warning Page "ALERT is an acronym for Automated Local Evaluation in Real Time, which is a method of using remote sensors in the field to transmit environmental data to a central computer in real time."

• Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Services for Water Resources and Emergency Management from the US National Weather Service

• Sudan Flood Early Warning System (FEWS) "Khartoum plains and the flood plains of Atbara and the Main Nile were severely flooded during August-September 1988. As a result of that a Flood Early Warning System (FEWS) was installed in the Nile Waters Directorate of the Ministry of Irrigation and Waters Resources in Khartoum, some in the main river gauging stations on the Blue Nile and Atbara river system. The FEWS model is used to enable more advanced warning for future floods from the Nile."

• Report on National and Local Capabilities for Early Warning