Assessing the ability of a new seamless short-range ensemble rainfall product to anticipate flash floods in the French Mediterranean area

Godet, Juliette; Payrastre, Olivier; Javelle, Pierre; Bouttier, François

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-3355-2023

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02 Nov 2023

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Assessing the ability of a new seamless short-range ensemble rainfall product to anticipate flash floods in the French Mediterranean area

Juliette Godet, Olivier Payrastre, Pierre Javelle, and François Bouttier

Data sets

Hydrological simulation datasets for eight flash flood events in southeastern France, V1 J. Godet https://doi.org/10.57745/IHKGRE

Short summary

This article results from a master's research project which was part of a natural hazards programme developed by the French Ministry of Ecological Transition. The objective of this work was to investigate a possible way to improve the operational flash flood warning service by adding rainfall forecasts upstream of the forecasting chain. The results showed that the tested forecast product, which is new and experimental, has a real added value compared to other classical forecast products.