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• Dec. 10, 2024, 2:33 p.m.

  Flooding from Tropical Storm Sara in Central America, November 2024

  by Richard Davies, floodlist

  Tropical Storm Sara made landfall on 14 November 2024 near the Honduras-Nicaragua border. The storm brought significant rainfall across Central America, causing landslides and river overflows which resulted …
  

  
  

• Nov. 4, 2024, 10:45 a.m.

  New maps backgrounds from maptiler.com

  The Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) is pleased to announce a minor upgrade to its map viewer enhancing the user experience. As of 31-10-2024, the Bing Maps background layers have been removed from the map …
  

  
  

• Aug. 16, 2024, 6:06 p.m.

  GloFAS 0.05 degrees high resolution static maps: scientific publication and open dataset

  The recently published scientific publication Technical note: Surface fields for global environmental modelling  provides a thorough description of the methodology and raw data used for the generation of the GloFAS 0.05 degrees high …
  

  
  

• July 6, 2024, 9:49 a.m.

  2023 GloFAS and GFM Survey RESULTS & ACTION PLAN

  The Annual Survey for the reference year 2023 was conduced in February-March 2024: the results and the complete list of FOLLOW-UP actions are available from THIS PAGE. 

  
  

• April 4, 2024, 8:12 a.m.

  Summary of the Annual Meeting, survey (last chance!), and new URL

  Annual Meeting Summary

  The 3^rd CEMS Global Flood Forecasting and Monitoring Annual Meeting (online) gathered almost 200 participants and it featured presentations about recent developments to CEMS GloFAS and …