MHEWC Policy

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The MHEWS is a technical & operational shift from traditional forecast( ‘what weather be ) to itnegrated impact forecast (‘what weather can do’).  It encompasses transformative and structural changes from the traditional forecasts to IT database & GIS tool-based analytics of color-coded thresholds of impacts, exposure,  risks, vulnerabilities of the ground,  anticipatory losses & damages likely to impend over the forecast lead time.  Therefore, the humanitarian community and vulnerable sectors will early be informed about the impact level and be able to develop an early action protocol (EAP) for better preparedness. ICT-driven integrated impact-based weather forecasting, warning, alerting, and multi-hazard early warning system( MHEWS) is a WMO’s new approach to come up with a one-stop solution to improved weather and climate information services starting from baseline climate risk and vulnerability assessment, risk repository, and atlas preparation so that any impending hazards weather events being well screened, predicted with spatiotemporal scale and anticipatory loss &  damages (L & D) being well advised over the forecast lead-time until hazardous weather events being dissipated. 

Traditional weather forecasting provides limited information on weather conditions, such as temperature, precipitation, wind speed, and, other atmospheric conditions, but IBF takes it steps further by providing information on how those conditions could impact ground elements by & large. For example, an IBF  forecast intends to provide information on frequency, the intensity of weather events, the threshold of impacts at the spatiotemporal scale of the impending hazardous weather, anticipatory risk and vulnerability, loss &  damages(L & D) are likely, how to develop an early action protocol (EAP), early warning based early action ( EWEA) detailed contingency plans and anticipatory budgeting to be allocated for better preparedness, etc.

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